Art Museums
New York’s art museums hold some of the deepest collections of Latin American, Indigenous, African diaspora, and global roots art anywhere in the world. From El Museo del Barrio’s Latino and Latin American holdings to the Schomburg Center’s archive of the African diaspora, this covers the permanent collections, rotating exhibitions, and special installations that put that history on the wall.
Expect coverage built around what’s actually on view right now, plus the institutions themselves, so a visit lines up with the right exhibition rather than a guess. This is the hub for anyone tracking where this city’s global roots story lives inside its museum walls.
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Queens Museum Latin Art and Community
Art Museums, British, Ecuadorian, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Queens, Folkloric Dance, Indigenous, Jamaican, Queens MuseumAbout Us: The American Imaginary, Ecuadorian Spring Recital, Sonia Boyce
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New Museum Reopens with an Exhibition on Newmanity
Argentine, Art Museums, Brazilian, Ethiopian, French, Italian, Lower East Side NYC, Martinican, Mexican, Moroccan, New Museum, Nigerian, Peruvian, Romanian, Senegalese, Spanish, Sudanese, ZimbabweanNew Humans: Memories of the Future
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El Museo del Barrio is NYC’s Caribbean and Latin American Art Museum
Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 EAST HARLEM “El Barrio,” Manhattan
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Reopens Galleries of African, Indigenous, and Oceanic Art
Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Reopening, African, Indigenous, Oceanic art 🇧🇯 🇨🇲 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇪🇨 🇪🇹 🇬🇦 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, Senegalese contemporary art 🇸🇳 Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Black dandy men’s fashion MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Brooklyn Museum Combines African, Indigenous, Asian, Islamic, and Women’s Art with Community
Elizabeth Catlett, African American Mexican artist and activist 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn
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Met Cloisters is the Met Museum’s Collection of Medieval European Art, Architecture, and Gardens
Met Expert Talks en Español ~ La magia de colorantes naturales en la Edad Media 🇪🇸
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Bronx Museum of the Arts is a Crossroads of Bronx Culture
Making Room: Museum as Space for Self-Expression, community art Futura 2000: Breaking Out, Leonard Hilton McGurr graffiti art to abstraction CONCOURSE VILLAGE, The Bronx
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American Museum of Natural History is One of the Stars of New York City Museums
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan
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Museum of the City of New York Celebrates 100 Years
“We Are Still Here!” Lunaapeew/Lenape Celebration Weekend 🇺🇸 Byzantine Bembé, New York by Manny Vega 🇵🇷 🇧🇷 “EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan
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National Museum of the American Indian New York
Argentine, Art Museums, Bahamian, Belizean, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Financial District, French Canadian, Guatemalan NYC, Guyanese NYC, Haitian, Honduran NYC, Indigenous, Mexican, Panamanian, Paraguayan NYC, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, VenezuelanJeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes, Native American superhero site-specific installation Native New York Infinity of Nations, art Ancestral Connections, contemporary Native art draws on the past FINANCIAL DISTRICT, Manhattan
