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Museum↕ | Focus↕ | Opened↕ | Annual Visitors (M)↕ | Neighborhood↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Universal art history | 1,870 | 5.4 | Upper East Side | 5,000 years of art, Temple of Dendur, American Wing, Costume Institute Gala |
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | Modern and contemporary art | 1,929 | 2.8 | Midtown | Starry Night, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Campbell's Soup Cans, 2019 expansion |
American Museum of Natural History | Natural sciences | 1,869 | 5 | Upper West Side | Blue whale, dinosaur halls, Hayden Planetarium, 2023 Gilder Center |
Guggenheim Museum | Modern and contemporary art | 1,959 | 0.9 | Upper East Side | Frank Lloyd Wright spiral ramp, Kandinsky collection, Thannhauser works |
Whitney Museum of American Art | 20th-21st century American art | 1,931 | 1.1 | Meatpacking | Renzo Piano building on the High Line, Whitney Biennial, Hopper holdings |
Frick Collection | Old Masters in a mansion | 1,935 | 0.3 | Upper East Side | Vermeer, Bellini, Gilded Age Henry Clay Frick home, reopened 2025 |
9/11 Memorial and Museum | September 11 history | 2,014 | 3 | Financial District | Twin Towers site, survivor stairs, reflecting pool names, Last Column |
Brooklyn Museum | World art | 1,897 | 0.5 | Prospect Heights | Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, Egyptian collection, Beaux-Arts McKim Mead White building |
The Morgan Library & Museum | Rare books and manuscripts | 1,924 | 0.25 | Murray Hill | J.P. Morgan's study, Gutenberg Bibles, illuminated manuscripts, Piano extension |
New Museum | Contemporary art | 1,977 | 0.3 | Bowery | SANAA's stacked-cube building, emerging international artists |
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design | Design | 1,976 | 0.4 | Upper East Side | Carnegie Mansion, interactive pen, product and graphic design collections |
The Cloisters | Medieval European art | 1,938 | 0.3 | Fort Tryon Park | Unicorn Tapestries, romanesque cloister reassembled in upper Manhattan |
Museum of the City of New York | NYC history | 1,923 | 0.3 | Upper East Side | Activist New York exhibition, timescapes film, Fifth Avenue Museum Mile |
El Museo del Barrio | Latino and Latin American art | 1,969 | 0.12 | East Harlem | Puerto Rican and Caribbean focus, Three Kings Day parade |
Jewish Museum | Jewish art and culture | 1,904 | 0.2 | Upper East Side | Warburg Mansion, Chagall, Modigliani, contemporary Jewish artists shows |
Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum | Military/aerospace | 1,982 | 1 | Hell's Kitchen | USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Concorde |
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