American Folk Art Museum
A collection of over 4,000 artworks span 300 years of American visual expression, from unflinching portraits, dazzling quilts, and muscular weathervanes to potent works by contemporary self-taught artists in a variety of mediums. |
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American Museum of Natural History
The Museum boasts habitat groups of African, Asian and North American mammals, the full-size model of a Blue Whale, and the "Star of India", the largest blue sapphire in the world, as well as an impressive anthropological collection. |
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Bodies, The Exhibition
To help you see what a body really looks like on the inside, this exhibition uses real human bodies that have been preserved so they do not decay. |
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Children's Museum of Manhattan
CMOM connects the arts, language, science, math and humanities to the social and psychological needs of the child and their family. |
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Children's Museum of the Arts
Children's Museum of the Arts celebrates the visual and performing artist in every child through teaching, collecting, creating and exhibiting children's art. |
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Cloisters
Branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the 12th through the 15th century. |
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming. |
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El Museo del Barrio
With the feel of a large gallery, this lively small museum is a great place to go to keep abreast of current trends in Latino artwork. New exhibits literally spill into the hallway. |
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Hayden Planetarium
Mission is to bring the frontier of astrophysics to the public via exhibitry, books, public programs, and on-line resources.
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Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
Today's wax figures at Tussauds include historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars, and famous murderers. |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. |
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Museum of Jewish Heritage
Explains the essence and beauty of Jewish life yet remembers the horrors of the Holocaust and the hope people have. Organized around three basic themes: Jewish Life a Century Ago, The War Against Jews, & Jewish Renewal. |
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Museum of Modern Art
Collection includes 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models & drawings, & design objects. Also owns some 22,000 films, videos, & media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters & historical documents. |
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Museum of Sex
Committed to addressing a wide range of topics and material from different continents and cultures, time periods and media from drawings and paintings to photographs, film and video to ancient artifacts and old and new technology.
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National Museum of the American Indian
The 16th museum of the Smithsonian Institution. The first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, & exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, & arts of Native Americans. |
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Neue Galerie New York
Early 20th-century German & Austrian art & design, including art from Vienna c.1900, exploring the relationship that existed then between fine arts & decorative arts; also features German art representing various movements of the early 20th century. |
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New York City Fire Museum
Houses one of the nation's most important collections of fire related art and artifacts since the late 18th century. Includes painted leather buckets, helmets, pre-Civil War hand pumped fire engines, horse drawn vehicles and early motorized apparatus. |
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New York City Police Museum
The Museum strives to honor all men and women who have served in the most prestigious Police Department in the world, the NYPD, and the special place they occupy in New York City's history. |
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Ripleys Believe It or Not
Guests will find only authentic, original and unbelievable exhibits here, including locks of hair that belonged to George Washington, Ripley’s collection of Olympic
torches, & animal oddities, including a two-headed calf, a six-legged cow and an albino giraffe! |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Its mission is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of visual culture, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, and to collect, conserve, and study the art of our time. |
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The Frick Collection
Includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture, superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality. |
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Amanda K.: Educating people
Anabelle V.: learn a lot
Ashley H.: Preserve the body
Author P.: kid friendly
Cinthia D.: Informative
David M.: a nice time
Dianne M.: Thought provoking
Donna E.: very good
Faith N.: very expensive
Jason D.: I learned a lot
Jason S.: teaches you
Jessica M.: a must see, downtown
Josh R.: Pretty freaky
Kerry R.: Circulatory system
Shane M.: Opened my eyes
Tiffany F.: audio tour