New York City Museums

Browse 523 reviews, 1,276 travel blogs, 625 photos and videos about 202 museums in New York City. You'll also find some useful ratings and information so that you can get all of the unbiased information you need before filling your next trip with lots of fun things to do.

Recommended Museums in New York City

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  • Sep 25, 2006: ... down to what was our one and only "touristy" museum - The Ground Zero Museum Workshop. This musuem was one subway stop from ...
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  • 61 reviews
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  • Mar 13, 2007: ... On the other side after a quick look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art I turned downtown-wards again taking a walk past the ...
  • Oct 8, 2006: ... the lake looked like fun and the pyramidal structures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were also unexpected, but I was here ...
  • Feb 13, 2007: ... , behemoth of a museum which was a combination of the huge Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exceptional and classy Museum of ...
  • Mar 12, 2006: ... , yes we're getting tired) and then to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My head is spinning. But, an unbelievable collection ...
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  • 30 reviews
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  • Apr 4, 2008: ... the Brooklyn Bridge and strolled around Chinatown and the Lower East Side Tenement museum. Today is our last day and we've ...
  • Jun 25, 2006: ... katie's suggestion, kamand and i went to the lower east side tenement museum later that day. i only recommend this experience ...
  • Nov 17, 2008: ... and I had every intention of hitting the Lower East Side Tenement Museum on Saturday, but our plans got sidetracked by ...
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  • 16 reviews
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  • Aug 17, 2008: 14th August, Thursday Our last days .... We visit the Frick Collection, an old palace which belongs to one of the ...
  • Aug 27, 2005: ... Frick Collection - The Metropolitain Museum of Art The Frick Collection      I really loved ...
  • Nov 8, 2008: ... Now I can honestly say, I totally agree. Landing in New York City cannot compare to anything else, especially to landing in ...
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  • 13 reviews
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  • Jul 3, 2004: ... it out. After leaving, Caroline decided she wanted to see 'The Cloisters' exhibit. Had to get subway all the way up north ...
  • Sep 12, 2007: ... too.  We took the subway uptown to see the Cloisters - part of the Met which is a strange but great building with parts ...
  • Aug 6, 2009: ... realize that nothing could have adequately prepared me for the New York City mentality and  lifestyle. New Yorkers are ...
  • Sep 26, 2006: ... Tryon Park at the upper end of Manhattan. We walked around The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park before taking a subway back to ...
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  • 60 reviews
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  • May 19, 2008: ... to capture it on your camera. Yellow cabs fly past, New York city cops patrol and tourists snap away with their cameras and ...
  • Oct 23, 2004: ... boarded a busy ferry bound for The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We wandered around Mrs Liberty a few laps trying ...
  • Jul 5, 2004: ... close to the Statue of Liberty without paying to go on the Ellis island ferry. Good for photo's. Had lunch in some cafe, ...
  • Mar 28, 2006: ... , and you can barely see it from Manhattan. Next stop was Ellis Island where immigrants were screened in the late 1900s and ...
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  • 16 reviews
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  • Apr 22, 2009: ... walked across the street to American Girl Place for a look around.  The girls wanted a new outfit for their dolls but ...
  • Oct 15, 2007: ... to all, but some day we will. Adidas Originals Store American Girl Place The dolls were so sweet; I even wanted to put ...
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  • 43 reviews
  • 80 travel blogs
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  • May 19, 2008: ... CBS's 'The David Letterman Show', we came to the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). If the Louvre in Paris is the world's ...
  • May 9, 2007: ... range of products was mind-boggling. The shops of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum stocked very classy ...
  • Jul 29, 2006: ... went round the Guggenheim and then also went round the Museum of Modern Art when Dean realised they had his favorite set of ...
  • Mar 30, 2006: ... - native american history - metropolitan - moma (museum of modern art) - guggenhiem - the frick the office - ...
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  • Nov 18, 2006: ... night. Earlier that day we had explored the American Museum of Natural History, of which I had high expectations for. No, ...
  • Jan 24, 2009: ... and cheese for $7.99 - lunch special American Museum of Natural History Back to apartment for a rest The ...
  • Oct 4, 2005: ... his pilgrimage by visiting the dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Bob, our guide to the ...
  • Sep 24, 2007: ... more given more time!). We also managed the American Museum of Natural History where we saw meteors, dinosaur bones  ...
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  • 6 reviews
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  • Oct 23, 2004: ... Harlem, Guggenheim, The Met (nearly), The Natural History, The Public Library and The Grand Central Station Oyster Bar. What ...
  • Mar 10, 2007: ... grand Grand Central Station and the equally grand New York Public Library. With the Chrysler Building towering overhead we ...
  • Mar 28, 2006: ... away from the glitz and garishness of Times Square to NY Public Library for a bit more culture. It's a really good looking ...
  • Sep 25, 2002: ... is expensive. We have now found out its free in the public library. Anyway we are in the Big Apple, probably home to the ...
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  • 62 reviews
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  • Aug 31, 2009: ... to watch it from the comfort of my own home. Madame Tussauds Wax Museum: This was a fun outing! It would have been nice to ...
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  • 5 reviews
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  • Dec 3, 2005: ... Pick a museum based on the quality of its refreshments (the Neue Galerie wins for its Viennese pastries but MOMO sounds good, ...
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  • May 3, 2009: ... a book about the Henry Darger collection at the American Folk Art Museum, an "opulent ornament" that looks like the patterns ...
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  • 8 reviews
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  • Oct 8, 2006: ... myself quite lucky, because I've just spent a great couple of weeks in New York City training for my new job, and by next ...
  • Apr 6, 2008: ... living in sin and the next we are visiting the "museum of sex" on 5th avenue, a huge, modern and stylish museum devoted to, ...
  • Aug 3, 2009: ... my money for Vegas shows instead. --In New York, Amara and I went to the Museum of Sex (We were curious). Pretty cool, had ...
  • Sep 24, 2007: ... . I popped into the interesting Museum of Sex. This museum only has 3 sections which changes regularly however ...
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  • May 19, 2008: ... '. Further down Museum Mile, we visited the Museum of the City of New York. This particular museum housed collections of ...
  • Oct 3, 2007: ... .  Then yet another sprint up 5th to the Museum of the City of New York, where I dozed off during the obligatory ...
  • Aug 3, 2009: ... Ferry ($20), Cirlce Line 75 min cruise ($20), Museum of The City of New York ($10 but didn't make it here) and discount of ...
  • Jul 30, 2007: ... autre musée que prévu hier, ce sera le museum of the city of New York car le museum d'histoire naturelle nécessite une journée ...
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