Museums/Galleries in New York City

Museums/Galleries in New York City

Sights Overview
Name Category Location
 
303 Gallery
International cutting-edge artists shown here include photographer...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Acquavella Galleries
The 19th- and 20th-century art shown inside this five-story marble-floored...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Alan Klotz Gallery
Fine 19th- and 20th-century and contemporary photography is the...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
American Folk Art Museum
Weather vanes, quilts, pottery, scrimshaw, sculpture, and paintings...
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
The gallery showcases artists on the cutting edge, such as sculptor...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Asia Society and Museum
The Asian art collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
ATM Gallery
On an industrial cobblestone block just off the West Side Highway...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Brooklyn Children's Museum
A mile east of Grand Army Plaza is the oldest children's museum...
Museums / Galleries Downtown Brooklyn
 
Brooklyn Historical Society
Housed in an 1881 Queen Anne-style National Landmark building...
Museums / Galleries Waterfront Brooklyn
 
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum has long stood in the shadow of Manhattan's...
Museums / Galleries Downtown Brooklyn
 
Casey Kaplan
Founded in 1995, this gallery represents 17 contemporary artists...
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 are...
Museums / Galleries Upper West Side
 
Children's Museum of the Arts
In this bi-level space a few blocks from Broadway, children ages...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Perched on a wooded hill in Fort Tryon Park, near Manhattan's...
Museums / Galleries Upper West Side
 
David Findlay Jr Gallery
This gallery concentrates on contemporary and 20th-century American...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
David Zwirner
Proving his finger is on the pulse of contemporary art, Zwirner...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Deitch Projects
This energetic enterprise composed of two gallery spaces shows...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
Drawing Center
At this nonprofit organization the focus is on contemporary and...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
DUMBO Arts Center
This 3,000-square-foot gallery draws visitors for the contemporary...
Museums / Galleries Waterfront Brooklyn
 
Edwynn Houk
The impressive stable of 20th-century photographers here includes...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
El Museo del Barrio
El barrio is Spanish for "the neighborhood" and the nickname...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Fraunces Tavern Museum
In his pre-presidential days as a general, George Washington...
Museums / Galleries Lower Manhattan
 
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 the jewel-box space, artist Kazuko Miyamoto directs crisp...
Museums / Galleries Lower East Side
 
Gladstone Gallery
The international roster of artists in this gallery's two locations...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
This gallery exhibits the works of young artists as well as retrospectives...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
Hirschl & Adler
Although this gallery has a selection of European works, it's...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library
This is the best collection of Spanish art outside the Prado...
Museums / Galleries Harlem
 
Jack Shainman Gallery
Both emerging and established artists are shown here, such as...
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 very lofty works. Besides ceramics...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Japan Society
The stylish and serene lobby of the Japan Society has interior...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
The Jewish Museum
Within a Gothic-style 1908 mansion, the museum draws on a large...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Keszler Gallery
Inside a warren of rooms on the ground floor of the same building...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Knoedler & Company
Knoedler helped many major American collectors, including industrialist...
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
Since 1985 owners Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine have...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Marlborough
With galleries in London, Monaco, and Madrid, the Marlborough...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Mary Boone Gallery
It was once a hot gallery in SoHo during the 1980s, but this...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Matthew Marks Gallery
A white-hot venue for both the New York and international art...
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 the city held no other museum than the colossal Metropolitan...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Michael Werner
This gallery, the branch of one in Berlin, specializes in German...
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
 
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
Visiting the New York Stock Exchange was the ultimate high for...
Museums / Galleries Lower Manhattan
 
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 whimsical building right next door to the Time-Warner Center...
Museums / Galleries Upper West Side
 
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art features smartly curated...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
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 Lower Manhattan
 
Museum of Sex
Ponder the profound history and cultural significance of sex...
Museums / Galleries Flatiron District
 
Museum of the City of New York
Within a Colonial Revival building designed for the museum in...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Museum of the Moving Image
Like switching to a widescreen television, the newly renovated...
Museums / Galleries Queens
 
Nancy Hoffman Gallery
Contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and video...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution)
This museum is housed in the Beaux-Arts Alexander Hamilton U.S...
Museums / Galleries, Native American Sites Lower Manhattan
 
Neue Galerie New York
Early-20th-century German and Austrian art and design are the...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
New York City Fire Museum
In the former headquarters of Engine 30, a handsome Beaux-Arts...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
New York City Police Museum
Why are police called cops? Why does a police badge have eight...
Museums / Galleries Lower Manhattan
 
New York Earth Room
Walter De Maria's 1977 avant-garde work consists of 140 tons...
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 Waterfront 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
This SoHo stalwart hosts a wide range of visual arts: paintings...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
The Pace Gallery
The Midtown specialist in 20th- and 21st-century art now has...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
The Pace Gallery
The giant gallery—now in Chelsea as well—focuses...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
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
Pierogi remains hip yet cheerfully accessible. Be sure to check...
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, this gallery represents more than 30 international...
Museums / Galleries SoHo
 
SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928 to exhibit innovative contemporary...
Museums / Galleries Queens
 
Sean Kelly Gallery
Drop in at this large space for works by top contemporary American...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Sideshow Gallery
At Sideshow Gallery enjoy the diverse exhibitions as well as...
Museums / Galleries Williamsburg
 
Skyscraper Museum
This small museum will either delight or disappoint skyscraper...
Museums / Galleries Lower Manhattan
 
Smack Mellon
Inside a 6,000-square-foot restored boiler building, Smack Mellon...
Museums / Galleries Waterfront Brooklyn
 
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
More than 2,000 years of international design are on display...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark museum building is visited as much...
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
 
Spanierman
This venerable gallery deals in 19th- and early-20th-century...
Museums / Galleries Midtown
 
Studio Museum in Harlem
Contemporary art by African-American, Caribbean, and African...
Museums / Galleries Harlem
 
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
This gallery presents such contemporary artists as Uta Barth...
Museums / Galleries Chelsea
 
Ukrainian Museum
Folk art, fine art, and documentary materials addressing the...
Museums / Galleries East Village
 
Whitney Museum of American Art
With its bold collection of 20th- and 21st-century and contemporary...
Museums / Galleries Upper East Side
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