New York City museums and galleries

Founded in 1869, this is the oldest museum in New York. With more than 35 million exhibits it is the largest museum of natural history in the world. The museum is housed in a building complex built in ...

An irreplaceable international collection of visual art. Guggenheim originally collected old masters until the German artist and later museum director Baroness Hilla Rebay introduced him to non-objecti...

Known as the "Met" for short. It is among the most important art museums in the world, on a par with the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Eremitage in St. Petersburg. Its opening ex...

The Whitney Museum of American Art is the only museum in New York dedicated exclusively to American art of the 20th century. In 1918 she opened the Whitney Studio Club and the Whitney Studio Gallery in ...

The very young art scene is given an introduction here. After renovation and expansion (the plans were by Frederic Fisher, a student of Frank O. Gehry) the very young art scene is now given an introduct...

Its Egyptian department and the collection of American art up to the present day are famous.</. The museum is a comfortable half-hour subway ride from Manhattan. In the museum's courtyard, parts of demo...

New York's mecca for contemporary art. Though the New Museum has been around since 1977, it moved to a new location in the ever-hip Bowery in 2007 that is twice the size of the original. Housed in a bu...

The building is as unusual as the work of the artist Isamu Noguchi . Isamu Noguchi is rooted in American and Japanese culture. In a former studio of the artist are sculptures, stage decorations (for Mar...

Austrian and German art - from 100 years back! A stylish city palace"Neue Galerie", built in 1914 by the architects of the New York Public Library Carrère & Hasting in the best part of New York, and r...