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New York City Museums (Manhattan)

New York City has some of the greatest museums in world. If you are bored and need something to stimulate your mind why not check out one of these.

If you know of any more please add them below the list and I will update later.

1. American Folk Art Museum‎ - 45 W 53rd St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 265-1040. www.folkartmuseum.org
2. American Museum of Natural History – 79th St and Central Park West, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 769-5100. http://www.amnh.org/museum/?src=toolbar
3. Children's Museum of Manhattan - 212 W 83rd St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 721-1234‎. www.cmom.org
4. Cloisters Museum and Gardens, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive
Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 923-3700. http://www.metmuseum.org/cloisters

5. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - 2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128, http://cooperhewitt.org/VISIT/

6. The Frick Collection - 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY.
Ph: (212) 288-0700. http://www.frick.org/information/index.htm

7. Guggenheim Museum - 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY. Ph:‎ (212) 423-3500‎. http://www.guggenheim.org/
8. Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum - 166 W 46th St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 245-0072. http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/
9. Jewish Museum - 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, NY. http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
10. Lower East Side Tenement Museum – 108 Orchard Street, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 982-8420. http://www.tenement.org/

11. Merchant's House Museum - 29 East Fourth Street, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 777-1089. http://merchantshouse.org/visit/index.html
12. Metropolitan Museum of Art‎ - 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org/
13. Museum of American Finance - 48 Wall Street, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 908-4110. http://www.moaf.org/index

14. Museum of Arts and Design - at 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY. 10019. Ph: (212) 299-7777
http://www.madmuseum.org/

15. Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) - 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY. Ph: (212) 619-4785. http://www.mocanyc.org/about/
16. Museum of the City of New York - 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 534-1672. http://www.mcny.org/visit-the-museum/

17. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)‎ - 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 708-9400. http://www.moma.org/visit/index
18. Museum of Television & Radio‎ - Floor 6, 25 W 52ND St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 621-6600.‎ http://www.paleycenter.org/
19. National Museum of the American Indian - George Gustav Heye Center at One Bowling Green, New York, NY. http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny
20. New Museum of Contemporary Art – 235 Bowery, New York, NY. http://www.newmuseum.org/
21. New York City Fire Museum – 278 Spring St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 691-1303, www.nycfiremuseum.org

22. New York City Police Museum - 100 Old Slip, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 480-3100. www.nycpolicemuseum.org

23. Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York - 319 West 107th Str., New York, NY. Ph: (212) 864-7752. http://www.roerich.org/museum.html?mid=about_en
24. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - at 22-25 Jackson Ave, intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-2084.
http://www.ps1.org/about/

25. Rubin Museum of Art‎ - 150 W 17th St, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 620-5000‎. http://www.rmanyc.org/
26. South Street Southport Museum -12 Fulton Street, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 748-8786. http://www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org/
27. The Ukrainian Museum - 222 East 6th Street, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 228-0110. http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/about.html
28. Whitney Museum of American Art - 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY. Ph: (212) 570-3600. http://www.whitney.org/www/information/index.jsp

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15 Comments

AJ May 20, 2009

FANTASTIC list NYBoy666! This will be really helpful next time in NYC. Thanks.

PureKrome May 20, 2009

NYBoy, do u have a favourite museum you prefer out of all these? Guggenheim or MoMA?

CommunityMan May 21, 2009

So many places to visit!

nyboy666 May 21, 2009

PureKrome, my favorite is the Natural History Museum, it has an amazing space exhibit (the Hayden Planetarium). The movie Night at the Museum is based on this museum. The Met is also amazing, the Egyptian temples are incredible.

Uraniumfish Jan 02, 2010

PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City is worth adding to the list. It's run by MoMA but has its own identity as a place that shows contemporary art by living artists working now. Whereas the MoMA is specifically focused on Modernist art at the beginning of the 20th century. PS 1 is the young and hip and happening one by the standards of museums. More interesting than the New Museum in my opinion, more vibrant. http://www.ps1.org/

uptowngirl Jan 02, 2010

I would like to add the Asia Society and Museum (http://www.asiasociety.org) at 70th Street and Park Avenue a great resource for Asian art and cultural exhibits and also the El Museo del Barrio( http://www.elmuseo.org/)which is located at 104th street and fifth avenue has just re-opened after a huge make-over in October 2009.

Uraniumfish Jan 02, 2010

The Frick Collection is worth lingering over in an afternoon. Old master paintings and an intense kind of serenity.

Uraniumfish Jan 02, 2010

Oh, how could I forget! The Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle. I was there recently and they had a nice exhibit of art objects made of paper, plus an exhibit made up entirely of Madeleine Albright's pins (and she has hundreds of them). Really nice, and I appreciated the building. It had a light functional quality and didn't feel over-designed and self-conscious the way museum buildings tend to be. It seemed like quite a vibrant little museum and they get a lot of mileage out of being the MAD. http://www.madmuseum.org/

nyboy666 Jan 04, 2010

Great suggestions, I've updated the list!

hhusted Jan 05, 2010

I've been to a couple of the museums listed. The American Museum of Natural History was really interesting to me, since it showed all that occurred in the past till now. What an experience that was.

hhusted Jan 06, 2010

I read that the famous Wassily Kandinsky's painting will be seen at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between September 18 and January 13. So if you want to see this guy's paintings you better get over there, before they discontinue the showing.

ajadedidealist Jan 19, 2010

There's the Neue Galerie on Fifth Avenue and 86th Street. It's a collection of German and Austrian art with reference to Jungenstil - lots of Klimt, Schiele, etc. And the do have a lovely Old World-style cafe, Cafe Sabarsky, which is a bit overpriced but absolutely charming with wood panels and proper Viennese coffee! I just discovered the other day that they let you in free at the Met about an hour before closing (technically you could get in free any day if you feel brave enough to pay less than the "suggested admission" but this is a little more guilt-free!). Nothing like a impromptu quick wander through the Temple of Dendur or the 18th Century French Rooms....

hhusted Jan 19, 2010

An hour before closing aye ... well I guess perhaps I should look at my schedule and see if I can make it there one hour before closing, at least if my pocket is a little light at the time.

Uraniumfish Jan 19, 2010

@ ajadeidealist See the thread about the Met for a discussion on getting in for free...

Uraniumfish Jan 19, 2010

By the way, lots of museums have times when you can get in for free or for a reduced price. I really love that they do that and make things accessible to people with not so much money to spend on admission fees.