Museums By Neighborhood

• Lower Manhattan

Museum Of Jewish Heritage. This sleek, modern building, completed in 1997, is a living memorial to both the vitality of the Jewish people and its tragic history. The building’s six sides recall at ...more

• Soho And Tribeca

New York City Fire Museum. Housed in a renovated 1904 stone firehouse, the museum displays impressive fire-fighting memorabilia, like a hand-pulled truck from the era when George Washington was a volunteer ...more

• Chinatown

Museum Of The Chinese In The Americas. The first museum to be dedicated to the history of the Chinese and their descendants in the Western Hemisphere, this museum has artistic, historical, and architectural ...more

• Lower East Side

 Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This museum, dedicated to the experience of New York’s immigrants in the early 20th century, offers one of the most personal and fascinating approaches to New ...more

• Greenwich Village

Forbes Magazine Galleries. Located in the Forbes Magazine headquarters, this small museum contains the eclectic possessions of the late Malcolm S. Forbes, Sr. The multi-millionaire financier had a ...more

• East Village

Merchant’S House Museum. This three-floor museum, located in the townhouse of well-off merchant Seabury Tredwell, offers a fascniating look into the daily life of New York’s 19th-century elite ...more

• Chelsea

The Museum At The Fashion Institute Of Technology. This small museum is a fascinating place for both fashion buffs and people who can’t tell the difference between satin and lace. Rotating exhibits ...more

• Midtown West

 Museum Of Modern Ar T (Moma).  In the 1920s, the conservative Metropolitan Museum refused to display modernist work. Scholar Alfred Barr responded by holding the first exhibit of the eventual ...more

• Midtown East

Sony Wonder Technology Lab. This free, child-oriented museum combines exhibits on the history of communications with interactive technology. After entering the lab as a “Media Trainee,” you progress ...more

• Upper East Side

 Frick Collection. Built in the style of an 18th-century mansion, the magnificent former residence of industrialist Henry Clay Frick was transformed into a museum in 1935. Frick was a self-made ...more

• Upper West Side

 American Museum Of Natural History. Generations of New York schoolchildren and curious New Yorkers of all ages have come to the Natural History Museum to marvel at its huge dinosaur skeletons ...more

• Harlem

 The Cloisters. Crowning a hilltop at the northern tip of Manhattan, this tranquil branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Fragments of ...more

• Brooklyn

 Brooklyn Museum Of Art. In any other city, the Brooklyn Museum would have the largest and most impressive art collection in town. Even when compared to the giants of Manhattan’s Museum Mile ...more

• Queens

TAmerican Museum Of The Moving Image. This museum, dedicated to the art of film and television production, features fascinating and fun exhibits explaining television and film production, along with ...more

• The Bronx

The Bronx Museum Of The Arts. Located in the rotunda of the Bronx Courthouse, the museum’s two small galleries exhibit provocative works by contemporary and local artists, with a focus on Latino ...more

• Staten Island

Alice Austen House Museum. This 18th-century cottage “Clear Comfort” was the home of photographer Alice Austen, who took more than 8000 photographs of her upper-middle-class family, as well as ...more