New York Museums
New York
New York Museums
The Museum Mile is a stretch along 5th Avenue full of museums and other fine arts institutions. If you are in New York for a short stay the Museum Mile is a must. The tree lined walk down the side of Central Park is also a nice treat.
Don't miss the Museum Mile Festival in June. Fifth Avenue is closed to traffic, the museums are open to the public, and street entertainers and musicians are everywhere.
The New York Pass above includes entry to over 40 of New York's most exciting attractions, including The Empire State Building, The Guggenheim Museum, Circleline Sightseeing Cruises, The Statue of Liberty, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum (just to name a few), a colorful 140-page guide book, and discounts at over 25 other shops, restaurants, theatres...even helicopter rides. AND, at many attractions, The New York Pass lets you skip the lines.
El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio was founded in 1969 by a group of Puerto Rican educators, artists, parents and community activists in East Harlem's Spanish-speaking El Barrio. Since then, El Museo del Barrio has evolved into New York's leading Latino cultural institution, having expanded its mission to represent the diversity of art and culture in all of the Caribbean and Latin America.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met is a universal museum: every category of art in every known medium from every part of the world during every epoch of recorded time is represented here and thus available for contemplation or study -- not in isolation but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other mediaSolomon R. Guggenheim
Frank Lloyd Wright architected this building, now designated the youngest New York City landmark. As you walk the spiral walkway toward the dome above, you will view works from artists of the 19th and 20th century including: Brancusi, Braque, Calder, Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Miro, Picasso, and Van GoghThe Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution displays a virtual cornucopia of decorative and design arts in Andrew Carnegie's Upper East Side mansion.Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum is a major American art museum, but also the largest Jewish museum in the Western hemisphere. Art is its primary medium of communication; yet the Museum's permanent exhibition presents, within an historical context, the multiple facets of Jewish identity as it has emerged during more than four milleniaThe Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York is a private, not-for-profit, educational agency established in 1923 to collect, preserve, and present original materials related to the history of New York City. In addition to individual contributions and gifts from foundations and corporations, the Museum receives public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The City of New York, the owner of the Museum's building, provides support in the form of operating and programmatic funds through the Department of Cultural AffairsNational Academy Museum
The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts is one of the oldest artist-run organizations in the United States. Founded in 1825, they have always fostered the promotion of the Fine Arts in America, and house a sizeable collection of American Arts, over 8,000 works! Designated a New York City landmark, this elegant and stately six-story Beaux-Arts townhouse designed by Ogden Codman Jr. is one of the few remaining mansions on Fifth Avenue that is open to the public.VISIT THE SITE