List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

A section of 5th Avenue on the Upper East Side at the level of Central Park is also known as Museum Mile, because here many famous museums are located. Every year on the second Tuesday in June, a museum is organized Mile Festival. The 5th Avenue will be closed to car traffic.

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B

  • Museo del Barrio ( For civil rights movement and Latin American culture; Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue )
  • Barnum 's American Museum
  • Bartow - Pell Mansion Museum
  • Bldg 92, Brooklyn Navy Yard Center ( on the history of naval shipyards in NYC, opened in 2011 )
  • ( Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in ... ) Black Culture
  • Bronx Museum of the Arts
  • Brooklyn Museum

C

  • Castle Clinton National Monument
  • Children's Museum of Manhattan
  • Children's Museum of the Arts
  • Center for Architecture
  • The Cloisters ( " monastery collection")
  • The Conference House ( Bentley Manor or Captain Christopher Billop House); here the Staten Iceland Peace Conference was held on 11 September 1776.
  • Cooper Hewitt Museum, National Design Museum

D

  • The Dahesh Museum
  • The Drawing Center
  • Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

E

F

  • Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Federal Hall National Memorial
  • Fisher Landau Center
  • Forbes Galleries
  • Fort Schuyler, Bronx
  • Fort Wadsworth
  • Frick Collection

G

  • General Grant National Memorial
  • Governors Iceland
  • Gracie Mansion
  • Guggenheim Museum (also: The Guggenheim, a museum of modern art - was architect Frank Lloyd Wright)

B

  • Hall of Fame for Great Americans
  • Hispanic Society of America (Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, El Greco)
  • Historic Richmond Town
  • New Amsterdam History Center ( period up to the American Revolution)
  • New York Historical Society

I

J

  • Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
  • Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
  • Jewish Children's Museum
  • The Jewish Museum

K

  • King Manor Museum, home of Rufus King
  • Kingsland Homestead

L

  • Lewis H. Latimer House
  • Lefferts Historic House
  • National Lighthouse Center and Museum
  • The Little Red Lighthouse
  • Hendrick I. Lott House
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum

M

  • Madame Tussaud's
  • Merchant's House Museum
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art ( " The Met "; central building by architect Richard Morris Hunt in a neoclassical style, opened in 1872. )
  • The Morgan Library & Museum
  • Morris - Jumel Mansion
  • Museum for African Art
  • Museum of Biblical Art
  • Museum of Chinese in America
  • Museum of the City of New York ( predominantly urban history, founded in 1923, building by the architect Joseph J. Freedlander of 1930, in a neo- Georgian style)
  • Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA
  • Museum of Jewish Heritage (founded 1997, building of the architect architect Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and partners of 2003)
  • Museum of Modern Art (also known as the moma, MoMA; 53rd Street )
  • Museum of Television and Radio ( over 50,000 TVs and radios )
  • Municipal Art Society (urban art society, also: Urban Center Gallery )

N

  • National Academy of Design
  • New Gallery - a museum for art of the early 20th century ( from equity, d)
  • New Amsterdam History Center
  • New York Transit Museum
  • New York School of Interior Design
  • New Museum of Contemporary Art (founded in 1977, since 2008 in the Bowery, Prince Street; design of the new building by Sejima Nishizawa )
  • Noble Maritime Collection, Staten Iceland
  • Noguchi Museum (The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum )

P

  • Paley Center for Media
  • Parsons The New School for Design
  • International Center of Photography (ICP )
  • Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
  • P.S.1 ( Contemporary Art Center )

Q

  • Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park, Queens ( a working since 1697 farm-museum )
  • Queens Museum of Art

R

  • Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
  • Rubin Museum of Art

S

  • Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • Sculpture Center
  • Seguine Mansion
  • Skyscraper Museum ( Skyscraper Museum, 1997)
  • Snug Harbor Cultural Center
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (The Guggenheim, Modern Art, founded in 1939, the museum building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; opened in 1959 )
  • Sports Museum of America
  • Staten Iceland Children's Museum
  • Staten Iceland Institute of Arts and Sciences
  • Studio Museum in Harlem

T

  • The Cloisters ( German: The cloisters, monasteries, Medieval Art)
  • Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site ( Birthplace of Roosevelt )
  • New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn ( Transport Museum )

V

  • Valentine - Varian House
  • Van Cortlandt House Museum

W

  • Waterfront Museum ( Port Museum ), Red Hook Brooklyn
  • Weeksville Heritage Center
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
  • The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
Museum of the Moving Image (New York City) Fort Tryon Park Ellis Island Grant's Tomb Governors Island Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Jewish Museum (Manhattan) Morris–Jumel Mansion New Africa Center National Academy Museum and School New York City Fire Museum New York City Fire Department Floral Park, New York Red Hook (Brooklyn)
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