Museums/Galleries in New York City

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Museums/Galleries in New York City

Name	Category	Location

303 Gallery International cutting-edge artists shown here include up-and-coming...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum The centerpiece of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum complex...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Acquavella Galleries The 19th- and 20th-century art shown inside this five-story marble-floored...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

American Folk Art Museum After a near death, or rather, near debt experience the American...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side

American Museum of Natural History The largest natural history museum in the world is also one of...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side


Andrea Rosen Gallery Artists on the cutting edge, such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, video-artists...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Asia Society and Museum The Asian art collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Brooklyn Children's Museum A mile east of Grand Army Plaza is the oldest children's museum...	Museums / Galleries	Park Slope and Prospect Heights

Brooklyn Historical Society Housed in an 1881 Queen Anne-style National Landmark building...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum Although it may be overshadowed by the big name museums in Manhattan...	Museums / Galleries	Park Slope and Prospect Heights

Casey Kaplan Founded in 1995, the Casey Kaplan gallery represents contemporary...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Cheim & Read This prestigious gallery represents artists such as Louise Bourgeois...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Children's Museum of Manhattan In this five-story exploratorium, children ages one to seven...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side

Children's Museum of the Arts The CMA seeks to give children ages 1 to 15 room to get really...	Museums / Galleries	West Village

The Cloisters Museum and Gardens Perched on a wooded hill in Fort Tryon Park, near Manhattan's...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is closed while undergoing...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

David Findlay Jr. Gallery This well-established gallery concentrates on contemporary and...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

David Zwirner Zwirner further solidifies his commitment to contemporary art...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Drawing Center At this nonprofit organization the focus is only on drawings—contemporary...	Museums / Galleries	SoHo

DUMBO Arts Center This 3,000-square-foot gallery draws visitors for contemporary...	Museums / Galleries	Waterfront Brooklyn

El Museo del Barrio El barrio is Spanish for "the neighborhood" and the nickname...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Fraunces Tavern Museum This former tavern, where General George Washington celebrated...	Museums / Galleries	Financial District

Frick Collection Henry Clay Frick made his fortune amid the soot and smoke of...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Gagosian Gallery This enterprising modern gallery has two large Chelsea branches...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Galerie Lelong This large gallery presents challenging installations and art...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Gallery Onetwentyeight Inside this narrow space, artist Kazuko Miyamoto directs crisp...	Museums / Galleries	Lower East Side

Gladstone Gallery The international roster of artists at this gallery's two Chelsea...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Hirschl & Adler Gallery Although this gallery has a selection of European works, it's...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library This is the best collection of Hispanic and Spanish art outside...	Museums / Galleries	Harlem

International Center of Photography Founded in 1974 by photojournalist Cornell Capa (photographer...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Jack Shainman Gallery Emerging and established artists such as L.N. Tallur, a young...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art At the top of a hill sits this replica of a Tibetan monastery...	Museums / Galleries	Staten Island

Jane Kahan This welcoming gallery represents some lofty works. In addition...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Japan Society The stylish, serene lobby of the Japan Society has interior bamboo...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown East

The Jewish Museum In a Gothic-style 1908 mansion, the Jewish Museum draws on a...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Leo Castelli Castelli was one of the most influential dealers of the 20th...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Lower East Side Tenement Museum Step back in time and into the partially restored 1863 tenement...	Museums / Galleries	Lower East Side

Luhring Augustine Gallery Owners Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine have been working...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Madame Tussaud's New York Sit in the Oval Office with President Obama, sing along with...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Marian Goodman Gallery Perhaps the most respected contemporary art dealer in town, the...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Marlborough Chelsea With galleries in London, Monaco, and Madrid, the Marlborough...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Marlborough Gallery The Marlborough gallery has an international reputation, representing...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Mary Boone Gallery Based in SoHo in the late seventies, when it was a hot showcase...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Matthew Marks Gallery A hot venue for both the New York and international art crowd...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Merchant's House Museum Built in 1832, this redbrick house, combining Federal and Greek...	Museums / Galleries	East Village

Metro Pictures The hottest talents in contemporary art shown here include Cindy...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

The Metropolitan Museum of Art If Manhattan held no other museum than the colossal Metropolitan...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Mitchell-Innes & Nash This sleek spot represents the estates of Roy Lichtenstein and...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

MoMA PS1 A pioneer in the "alternative-space" movement, PS1 rose from...	Museums / Galleries	Queens

Morgan Library and Museum The treasures inside this museum, gathered by John Pierpont Morgan...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown East

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden Built in 1799, this former carriage house (i.e., stable) became...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Museum of American Finance Pre-9/11, a visit to the New York Stock Exchange was the ultimate...	Museums / Galleries	Financial District

Museum of American Illustration Founded in 1901, the museum of the Society of Illustrators presents...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Museum of Arts and Design In a funky-looking white building right across the street from...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Founded in 1980, this museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting...	Museums / Galleries	Chinatown

Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust In a granite 85-foot hexagon at the southern end of Battery Park...	Museums / Galleries	Financial District

Museum of Mathematics There's no exact formula to get kids excited about math, but...	Museums / Galleries	Flatiron District

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Art enthusiasts and novices alike are often awestruck by the...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Museum of Sex Ponder the profound history and cultural significance of sex...	Museums / Galleries	Flatiron District

Museum of the City of New York In a Colonial Revival building designed for the museum in the...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Museum of the Moving Image Like switching to a widescreen television, the Museum of the...	Museums / Galleries	Queens

Nancy Hoffman Gallery Contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and video...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution) Massive granite columns rise to a pediment topped by a double...	Museums / Galleries, Native American Sites	Financial District

Neue Galerie New York Early-20th-century German and Austrian art and design are the...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

New Museum This seven-story, 60,000-square-foot structure—a glimmering...	Museums / Galleries	Lower East Side

New York City Fire Museum In the former headquarters of Engine 30—a handsome beaux...	Museums / Galleries	SoHo

New York City Police Museum Why are police called cops? Why does a police badge have eight...	Museums / Galleries	Financial District

New York Earth Room Noted "earthworks" artist Walter De Maria's 1977 avant-garde...	Museums / Galleries	SoHo

New York Hall of Science At the northwestern edge of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the...	Museums / Galleries	Queens

New York Transit Museum Step down into a 1930s subway station, where you'll find more...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown Brooklyn

New-York Historical Society Manhattan's oldest museum, founded in 1804, has one of the city's...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side

Nicholas Roerich Museum An 1898 Upper West Side town house contains this small, eccentric...	Museums / Galleries	Upper West Side

The Noguchi Museum In 1985 the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-88)...	Museums / Galleries	Queens

OK Harris Works of Art Since 1969, this contemporary fine-arts gallery has showed a...	Museums / Galleries	SoHo

The Pace Gallery The impressive roster of artists represented by the Pace Gallery...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

The Paley Center for Media With three galleries of photographs and artifacts that document...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Paula Cooper Gallery SoHo pioneer Paula Cooper moved to Chelsea in 1996, and enlisted...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Peter Findlay Gallery Covering 19th- and 20th-century works by European artists, this...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Pierogi Gallery Nope, it's not a restaurant, it's a hip art gallery. Check out...	Museums / Galleries	Williamsburg

Postmasters Postmasters shows new and established conceptual artists, with...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Queens Museum of Art Between the zoo and the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona...	Museums / Galleries	Queens

Robert Miller Gallery Miller, a titan of the New York art world, represents some of...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Founded in 1971 and in SoHo since the 1980s, this gallery represents...	Museums / Galleries	SoHo

Rubin Museum of Art This sleek and serene museum spread over six floors is the largest...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

SculptureCenter Founded by artists in 1928 to exhibit innovative contemporary...	Museums / Galleries	Queens

Sideshow Gallery The focus is on local Williamsburg artists at this pioneering...	Museums / Galleries	Williamsburg

Skyscraper Museum Why get a crick in your neck—or worse, risk looking like...	Museums / Galleries	Financial District

Smack Mellon Inside a 12,000-square-foot restored boiler building with a 35-foot...	Museums / Galleries	Waterfront Brooklyn

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark nautilus-like museum building is...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Sonnabend This pioneer of the SoHo art scene continues to show important...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Sotheby's Occupying its own 10-story building, this branch of the storied...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side

Studio Museum in Harlem Contemporary art by African-American, Caribbean, and African...	Museums / Galleries	Harlem

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Contemporary artists such as Uta Barth, whose blurry photos challenge...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Tibor de Nagy Gallery Founded in 1950, this gallery shows works by 20th-century artists...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown West

Ukrainian Museum From the late nineteenth century through the end of World War...	Museums / Galleries	East Village

Whitney Museum of American Art With its bold collection of 20th- and 21st-century contemporary...	Museums / Galleries	Upper East Side
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