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NYC Museums

There are New York City museums for just about anything you can imagine. Many are among the world’s best.


Latin Museums in NYC

New York City’s Latin museums include El Museo del Barrio, Hispanic Society, MoMA and the National Museum of the American Indian.

El Museo del Barrio was founded by East Harlem’s Puerto Rican community. It has a broader Latino focus now, but is still one of the best places in the world to see Taíno art.

Hispanic Society is a research library and museum that holds the best collection of Spanish art outside of Spain. It has famous Goyas. The library holds priceless colonial treasures that are mind-blowing to see in person. Visiting the Sorolla room is liking going to the beach in Valencia, Spain. Europeans know about it, but New Yorkers don’t. When some of the collection traveled to Madrid during renovations, lines ran around the block.

MoMA isn’t a Latin museum, but the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America makes it one of the world’s leading centers for Latin American art. The Cisneros Collection is one of the world’s best collections of Latin American modern art. She was collecting when the art world didn’t think there was real art in Latin America. Cisneros funded the Research Institute to increase the academic representation of Latin American art because that will raise its value.

The National Museum of the American Indian is part of the Smithsonian. Its original focus was Native Americans of the United States, but it now produces excellent bilingual exhibitions about the Indigenous Americas.


El Museo del Barrio (courtesy)

El Museo del Barrio

Hispanic Society NYC, El Cid (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Hispanic Society

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

National Museum of the American Indian NYC (TTstudio/Adobe)

National Museum of the American Indian


African Museums in NYC

New York City’s African museums include the Schomburg Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Africa Center.

The Brooklyn Museum is not an African museum, but has a strong collection of African art, and functions as sort of a community center for Brooklyn’s African diaspora community.

Brooklyn Museum (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Brooklyn Museum

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Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture

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The Most Popular Museums in NYC

New York City’s most popular museums are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum.


Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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American Museum of Natural History (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

American Museum of Natural History

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Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

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Guggenheim Museum New York (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime)

Guggenheim Museum New York

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Upper Manhattan Museums

These museums are above Central Park/110th St, or above 96th St on the East Side.

El Museo del Barrio (courtesy)

El Museo del Barrio

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Met Cloisters (Haoran Zhang/Dreamstime)

Met Cloisters

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Museum of the City of New York (Filip Wolak/MCNY)

Museum of the City of New York

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Uptown Manhattan Museums

These museums are in the Upper West Side, Central Park and the Upper East Side.

American Museum of Natural History (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

American Museum of Natural History

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Met Breuer (Jjfarq/Dreamstime)

Frick Collection

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Guggenheim Museum New York (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime)

Guggenheim Museum New York

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The Jewish Museum NYC (Zhukovsky/Dreamstime)

Jewish Museum

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Midtown Manhattan Museums

These museums are between 14th St and 59th St in the Midtown section of Manhattan.

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

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The Morgan Library & Museum (H.J. Herrera/Dreamstime)

Morgan Library & Museum

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Museum of Arts and Design is a museum of handicrafts (LeungPhotography/Dreamstime)

Museum of Arts and Design

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Downtown Manhattan Museums

These Manhattan museums are below 14th St.

National Museum of the American Indian NYC (TTstudio/Adobe)

National Museum of the American Indian

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New Museum of Contemporary Art (Matthew Omojola/Dreamstime)

New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Whitney Museum of American Art (Ed Lederman/Whitney)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Brooklyn Museums

Brooklyn Museum (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Brooklyn Museum

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Queens Museums

Museum of the Moving Image (zef art/Adobe)

Museum of the Moving Image

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MoMA PS1 (courtesy MoMA)

MoMA PS1

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Queens Museum NYC (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Queens Museum of Art

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Bronx Museums

Bronx Museum of the Arts (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

Bronx Museum of the Arts


Staten Island Museums

The Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island Children’s Museum, National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, and Richmond Town are among the museums in Staten Island.


A Change is in the Works

Curators have begun adapting to the fact that modern and contemporary art was not only created by men, in Europe and the United States, from about 1860 to the present. The Museum of Modern Art completely restructured their exhibitions in 2019 to be more inclusive of gender, place and time. ¡Bravo!

A Euro-centric point of view no longer works. A lot of great art is coming out of storage as a result.


Why Take your Kids to Museums in NYC?

The artist who set auction records in 2017 for an American artist, a Black artist, and the first contemporary art made after 1980 to pass the $100 million mark, was Jean-Michel Basquiat, a Haitian–Puerto Rican from Brooklyn.

How did that happen? As a child his mother used to take him to the Brooklyn Museum. Take your children to the museum. You never know what might happen.


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