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Museums/Galleries in New York City
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303 Gallery
International cutting-edge artists shown here include photographer... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Acquavella Galleries
The 19th- and 20th-century art shown inside this five-story marble-floored... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Alan Klotz Gallery
Fine 19th- and 20th-century and contemporary photography is the... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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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 |
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Andrea Rosen Gallery
The gallery showcases artists on the cutting edge, such as sculptor... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Asia Society and Museum
The Asian art collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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ATM Gallery
On an industrial cobblestone block just off the West Side Highway... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Brooklyn Children's Museum
A mile east of Grand Army Plaza is the oldest children's museum... |
Museums / Galleries | Downtown Brooklyn |
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Brooklyn Historical Society
Housed in an 1881 Queen Anne-style National Landmark building... |
Museums / Galleries | Waterfront Brooklyn |
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Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum has long stood in the shadow of Manhattan's... |
Museums / Galleries | Downtown Brooklyn |
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Casey Kaplan
Founded in 1995, this gallery represents 17 contemporary artists... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Cheim & Read
This prestigious gallery represents artists such as Louise Bourgeois... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Children's Museum of Manhattan
In this five-story exploratorium children ages one to seven are... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper West Side |
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Children's Museum of the Arts
In this bi-level space a few blocks from Broadway, children ages... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Perched on a wooded hill in Fort Tryon Park, near Manhattan's... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper West Side |
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David Findlay Jr Gallery
This gallery concentrates on contemporary and 20th-century American... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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David Zwirner
Proving his finger is on the pulse of contemporary art, Zwirner... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Deitch Projects
This energetic enterprise composed of two gallery spaces shows... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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Drawing Center
At this nonprofit organization the focus is on contemporary and... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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DUMBO Arts Center
This 3,000-square-foot gallery draws visitors for the contemporary... |
Museums / Galleries | Waterfront Brooklyn |
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Edwynn Houk
The impressive stable of 20th-century photographers here includes... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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El Museo del Barrio
El barrio is Spanish for "the neighborhood" and the nickname... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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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 |
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Gagosian Gallery
This enterprising modern gallery has two large Chelsea branches... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Galerie Lelong
This large gallery presents challenging installations and art... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Gallery Onetwentyeight
Inside the jewel-box space, artist Kazuko Miyamoto directs crisp... |
Museums / Galleries | Lower East Side |
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Gladstone Gallery
The international roster of artists in this gallery's two locations... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
This gallery exhibits the works of young artists as well as retrospectives... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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Hirschl & Adler
Although this gallery has a selection of European works, it's... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library
This is the best collection of Spanish art outside the Prado... |
Museums / Galleries | Harlem |
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Jack Shainman Gallery
Both emerging and established artists are shown here, such as... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
At the top of a hill sits this replica of a Tibetan monastery... |
Museums / Galleries | Staten Island |
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Jane Kahan
This welcoming gallery represents very lofty works. Besides ceramics... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Japan Society
The stylish and serene lobby of the Japan Society has interior... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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The Jewish Museum
Within a Gothic-style 1908 mansion, the museum draws on a large... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Keszler Gallery
Inside a warren of rooms on the ground floor of the same building... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Knoedler & Company
Knoedler helped many major American collectors, including industrialist... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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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 |
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Luhring Augustine
Since 1985 owners Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine have... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Marlborough
With galleries in London, Monaco, and Madrid, the Marlborough... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Mary Boone Gallery
It was once a hot gallery in SoHo during the 1980s, but this... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Matthew Marks Gallery
A white-hot venue for both the New York and international art... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Merchant's House Museum
Built in 1832, this redbrick house, combining Federal and Greek... |
Museums / Galleries | East Village |
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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 |
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Michael Werner
This gallery, the branch of one in Berlin, specializes in German... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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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 |
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Morgan Library and Museum
The treasures inside this museum, gathered by John Pierpont Morgan... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden
Built in 1799, this former carriage house (i.e., stable) became... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Museum of American Finance
Visiting the New York Stock Exchange was the ultimate high for... |
Museums / Galleries | Lower Manhattan |
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Museum of American Illustration
Founded in 1901, the museum of the Society of Illustrators presents... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Museum of Arts and Design
In a whimsical building right next door to the Time-Warner Center... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper West Side |
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Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art features smartly curated... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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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 |
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Museum of Sex
Ponder the profound history and cultural significance of sex... |
Museums / Galleries | Flatiron District |
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Museum of the City of New York
Within a Colonial Revival building designed for the museum in... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Museum of the Moving Image
Like switching to a widescreen television, the newly renovated... |
Museums / Galleries | Queens |
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Nancy Hoffman Gallery
Contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and video... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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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 |
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Neue Galerie New York
Early-20th-century German and Austrian art and design are the... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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New York City Fire Museum
In the former headquarters of Engine 30, a handsome Beaux-Arts... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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New York City Police Museum
Why are police called cops? Why does a police badge have eight... |
Museums / Galleries | Lower Manhattan |
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New York Earth Room
Walter De Maria's 1977 avant-garde work consists of 140 tons... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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New York Hall of Science
At the northwestern edge of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the... |
Museums / Galleries | Queens |
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New York Transit Museum
Step down into a 1930s subway station, where you'll find more... |
Museums / Galleries | Waterfront Brooklyn |
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New-York Historical Society
Manhattan's oldest museum, founded in 1804, has one of the city's... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper West Side |
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Nicholas Roerich Museum
An 1898 Upper West Side town house contains this small, eccentric... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper West Side |
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The Noguchi Museum
In 1985 the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-88)... |
Museums / Galleries | Queens |
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OK Harris Works of Art
This SoHo stalwart hosts a wide range of visual arts: paintings... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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The Pace Gallery
The Midtown specialist in 20th- and 21st-century art now has... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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The Pace Gallery
The giant gallery—now in Chelsea as well—focuses... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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Paula Cooper Gallery
SoHo pioneer Paula Cooper moved to Chelsea in 1996, and enlisted... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Peter Findlay Gallery
Covering 19th- and 20th-century works by European artists, this... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Pierogi
Pierogi remains hip yet cheerfully accessible. Be sure to check... |
Museums / Galleries | Williamsburg |
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Postmasters
Postmasters shows new and established conceptual artists, with... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Queens Museum of Art
Between the zoo and the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona... |
Museums / Galleries | Queens |
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Robert Miller Gallery
Miller, a titan of the New York art world, represents some of... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Founded in 1971, this gallery represents more than 30 international... |
Museums / Galleries | SoHo |
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SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928 to exhibit innovative contemporary... |
Museums / Galleries | Queens |
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Sean Kelly Gallery
Drop in at this large space for works by top contemporary American... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Sideshow Gallery
At Sideshow Gallery enjoy the diverse exhibitions as well as... |
Museums / Galleries | Williamsburg |
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Skyscraper Museum
This small museum will either delight or disappoint skyscraper... |
Museums / Galleries | Lower Manhattan |
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Smack Mellon
Inside a 6,000-square-foot restored boiler building, Smack Mellon... |
Museums / Galleries | Waterfront Brooklyn |
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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 |
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Sonnabend
This pioneer of the SoHo art scene continues to show important... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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Sotheby's
Occupying its own 10-story building, this branch of the storied... |
Museums / Galleries | Upper East Side |
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Spanierman
This venerable gallery deals in 19th- and early-20th-century... |
Museums / Galleries | Midtown |
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Studio Museum in Harlem
Contemporary art by African-American, Caribbean, and African... |
Museums / Galleries | Harlem |
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
This gallery presents such contemporary artists as Uta Barth... |
Museums / Galleries | Chelsea |
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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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