Museums & Galleries 

 
American Folk Art Museum
Exploring the diversity of American culture through folk art.
 
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.
 
American Museum of the Moving Image
The American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York is internationally renowned for its innovative approach to exhibition design - integrating works of art, artifacts, audiovisual presentations, and computer based interactive exhibits.
 
Asia Society
Provides information on the Asia Society, its programs, publications, exhibitions, regional centers, and membership. Visitors will also find virtual exhibitions, the text of recent speeches, Asia Society publications, and much more.
 
Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represents almost every culture. 
 
Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision of a unique central repository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people. The Center embodies the unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art. 
 
Children's Museum of Manhattan
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) is a not-for-profit institution, founded in 1973, to engage children and families in a partnership of learning through interactive exhibits and educational programs. CMOM inspires children and families to learn about themselves and our culturally diverse world through the arts, literacy, media & communications, science & the environment and early childhood education.
 
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible. The Museum celebrates the nature of design and explores its impact on the quality of our lives.
 
Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Online directory of the arts, cultural and humanities activities on Staten Island. 
 
Dia Center for the Arts
For over twenty years, Dia Center for the Arts (formerly the Dia Art Foundation) has played a vital and original role among arts institutions in New York, as well as nationally and internationally, by initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving projects in nearly every artistic medium, and creating a primary locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. 
 
El Museo del Barrio
Heralded by The New York Times as an institution in its ascendancy, 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. 
 
Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum holds a unique place in the history of museums. Established some sixty years ago by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and artist-advisor Hilla Rebay, it assumed temporary residence in a former automobile showroom on East 54th Street in New York.
 
Historic Richmond Town
Historic Richmond Town is a historic village and museum complex devoted to life on Staten Island. It is a 100-acre site; the restored area occupies 25 acres.
 
International Center of Photography
If a picture is worth a thousand words, there's a lot to be said in this center showcasing the innovation of photography and its impact in our lives.
 
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
One of the most successful, battle-tested ships in U.S. history is now one of the most unique attractions in New York City. Berthed on the mighty Hudson River in Manhattan, the Museum consists of diverse sea, air and space exhibits. Building on the long and distinguished history of the aircraft carrier U.S.S.Intrepid, the Museum offers a glimpse back to a time when the future of the free world hedged on these great ships. 
 
Jewish Museum of New York
Visit one of the largest Jewish museums in the country.
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
World-renowned museum in New York City carries an extensive selection of arts, posters, apparel and accessories, and home-decor items. The web site features information on upcoming museum events, fine art exhibits, special exhibitions, the Met collection and art galleries online. 
 
Museum of Jewish Heritage
A living memorial to the Holocaust, dedicated to the Jewish heritage in the 20th Century. Get an overview of the Museum and its history, its collections, upcoming events and information how to purchase tickets.
 
Museum of Modern Art
Connect to a variety of collections & exhibits past and present at the museum.
 
Museum of Television and Radio
A nonprofit museum founded by William S. Paley to collect and preserve television and radio programs and to make them available to the public.
 
Museum of the City of New York
Collects preserves and presents original cultural material related to New York City.
 
National Museum of the American Indian
Museum for the preservation, study & exhibition of the life, history & art of Native Americans.
 
National Lighthouse Museum
The history of this site goes back well before the Lighthouse Depot was established - in fact before the beginning of our country. In the late 17th century it was a farm...
 
New York City Fire Museum
The Official Museum of the New York City Fire Department.
 
New York City Police Museum
The New York City Police Museum captures and preserves the long and rich history of the department as well as a present-day look at the world of law enforcement through the eyes of its officers.
 
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has served individual artists, promoted their freedom to develop and create and provided the broader public with opportunities to experience and understand their work.
 
New York Hall of Science
The New York Hall of Science is New York City’s only hands-on science and technology center. The Hall features more than 225 hands-on exhibits. Visit us and explore the wonder and excitement of biology, chemistry and physics.
 
New York Historical Society
Official website of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum and historical society ...
 
Queens Council of the Arts
Rich in artistic expression and cultural tradition, Queens is home to more than 400 arts organizations and to hundreds more individual artists, all reflecting the diversity of the borough's multi-cultural population. 
 
South Street Seaport Museum
The South Street Seaport Museum is devoted to tracing the history of the Port of New York and its commercial and cultural impact on the city, the state and the nation. 
 
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Founded in 1897, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has been serving the New York musical community for over a century. 
 
The Brooklyn Expedition
The Brooklyn Expedition Web site is a collaborative project of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Public Library. This pilot project brings together the resources of these three major Brooklyn institutions to increase educational services...
 
The Cloisters
The Cloisters described by Germain Bazin, former director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology" is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.
 
The Frick Collection
This is the official web site of The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library.
 
The Morgan Library
Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library is an extraordinary complex of buildings in the heart of New York City.
 
The Studio Museum of Harlem
Premier museum dedicated to Caribbean, African & African-American art and culture.
 
Transit Museum
Housed in an authentic 1930's subway station it is home to 100 years of transit memorabilia.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney displays innovative American artists' work and the permanent art collection. 
 

 
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