99 Gansevoort St. The Whitney’s collection includes over 22,000 works created by more than 3,000 artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The area's popularity explains some of the crowds that gather here regularly. But the museum's outstanding collection, recognized as one of the world's finest holdings of 20th century American art, is the real draw.
11 W 53rd St, you could spend a day getting lost in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)'s permanent exhibits. But just as essential are the museum's other elements, including an attached cinema that combines art-house fare and more accessible offerings, top-notch gift shop MoMA Design Store, a sculpture garden with works by Picasso and Rodin, and the Modern, a high-end restaurant and bar run by Danny Meyer. Free Fridays !
235 Bowery, The 'New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It is among the few contemporary art museums worldwide exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world.
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, MoMA PS1 is one of the largest art institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens
1071 5th Ave, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece the Guggenheim Museum is home to a world-renowned collection of modern and contemporary art. The museum owns Peggy Guggenheim’s trove of cubist, surrealist and abstract expressionist works, along with the Panza di Biumo Collection of American minimalist and conceptual art from the 1960s and ’70s. In addition to works by Manet, Picasso, Chagall and Bourgeois, the Guggenheim Museum holds the largest collection of Kandinskys in the U.S.
1 E 70th St, The Frick is currently displaying a rare oil painting by Rembrandt, “Abraham Entertaining the Angels,” which hadn’t been on view for the public in a decade. The Frick Collection has announced an expansion of its pay-what-you-wish hours. Starting in July, visitors will be able to name their price of admission on Wednesdays, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Previously, the pay-what-you-wish hours were on Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The museum’s monthly First Fridays, in which admission is
Central Park West & 79th St, The American Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in the world with a mission commensurately monumental in scope. The entire museum spans 4 city blocks and consists of some 25 interconnected buildings. Though today the phrase "natural history" is restricted to the study of animal life, the museum—founded in 1869 on the heels of discoveries by Darwin and other Victorians—uses it in its original sense: that is, the study of all natural.
225 Madison & 36 st, The Morgan is not only a repository for some of the world's rarest books and manuscripts—it's an important museum of art as well. The library's holdings include treasures such as one of 23 copies of the original Declaration of Independence; an edition of the collected works of Phillis Wheatley, the first known African-American poet; Mozart's handwritten score of the Haffner Symphony; the only extant partial manuscript of Milton's Paradise Lost; an important collection of Me
180 Greenwich St, The 9/11 Memorial Museum tells the story of the events of 9/11 through monumental and authentic artifacts, first-person accounts and multimedia displays. The museum’s first special exhibition, “Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11,” features artwork by 13 artists who relied on their craft to understand 9/11. The 9/11 Memorial consists of two enormous reflecting pools set in the footprints of the Twin Towers.