List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

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New York City is home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites, many of which are internationally known. This list contains the most famous or well-regarded organizations, based on their mission.

Contents 1 Museums 1.1 Art 1.2 Culture or history 1.3 Design 1.4 Nature and Life Sciences 1.5 Children's museums 2 Performing arts 2.1 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 2.2 Music 2.3 Theaters 3 Historically significant sites 3.1 Historic House Trust 3.2 National Parks of New York Harbor 3.3 Other Historic Sites 3.4 World Trade Center site 4 Libraries 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Museums

[edit] Art

• American Museum of the Moving Image
• American Folk Art Museum
• Art in General
• Artists space
• Asia Society
• Asian American Arts Centre
• Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Dahesh Museum of Art
• Dia Art Foundation
• The Drawing Center
• Fisher Landau Center
• Forbes Galleries
• Frick Collection
• International Center of Photography
• International Print Center New York
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
• Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
• Japan Society
• Metropolitan Museum of Art – commonly called "The Met"
  • The Cloisters – medieval art collection
• Municipal Art Society (includes the Urban Center Gallery)
• Museum for African Art
• Museum of Biblical Art
• Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – commonly called "MoCCA"
• Museum of Modern Art – MoMA
• National Museum of Catholic Art and History
• Neue Galerie
• New Museum of Contemporary Art
• Nicholas Roerich Museum
• The Noguchi Museum (The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum)
• P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
• Queens Museum of Art
• Rubin Museum of Art
• SculptureCenter
• Socrates Sculpture Park
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
• White Columns
• Whitney Museum of American Art

[edit] Culture or history

• American Numismatic Society Museum
• Brooklyn Historical Society
• Brooklyn Museum
• Conference House
• Center for Jewish History (New York)
• Coney Island USA
• Dyckman House Museum
• Girl Scout Museum
• Greater Astoria Historical Society
• Hispanic Society of America
• Historic Richmond Town
• Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
• Jewish Museum (New York)
• Judaica Museum of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale
• Louis Armstrong House
• Merchant's House Museum
• El Museo del Barrio
• Museum of American Finance
• Museum of the City of New York
• Museum of Chinese in America
• Museum at Eldridge Street
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Museum of Sex
• National Museum of the American Indian (New York branch)
• National Museum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History
• Sports Museum of America
• New York City Fire Museum
• New York City Police Museum
• New-York Historical Society
• New York Transit Museum
• The Paley Center for Media
• Queens County Farm Museum
• Skyscraper Museum
• Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
• Yeshiva University Museum

[edit] Design

• Center for Architecture
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Cooper Union's Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
• Fashion Institute of Technology
• National Academy of Design
• Parsons The New School for Design
• New York School of Interior Design

[edit] Nature and Life Sciences

• American Museum of Natural History
  • Hayden Planetarium (the Rose Center for Earth and Space)
• Bronx Zoo
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• New York Aquarium
• New York Botanical Garden
• New York Hall of Science
• Queens Botanical Garden
• Staten Island Zoo
• Wave Hill

[edit] Children's museums

• Brooklyn Children's Museum
• Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture
• Children's Museum of the Arts
• Children's Museum of Manhattan
• Jewish Children's Museum
• Staten Island Children's Museum

[edit] Performing arts

[edit] Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

• Avery Fisher Hall
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Metropolitan Opera
• New York State Theater, which hosts:
  • New York City Ballet
  • New York City Opera

[edit] Music

• 92nd Street Y
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Manhattan School of Music
• The Juilliard School
• Boys Choir of Harlem
• Mannes College of Music
• New York Collegium
• City Parks Foundation
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Symphony Space

[edit] Theaters

• 92nd Street Y
• Apollo Theater
• Biltmore Theatre
• Bowery Ballroom
• Carnegie Hall
• Hammerstein Ballroom
• La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
• New York City Center
• The Public Theater
• Radio City Music Hall
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• The Town Hall
• Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

[edit] Historically significant sites

• See Also:List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City
• See Also:List of Registered Historic Places in Bronx County, New York
• See Also:List of Registered Historic Places in Kings County, New York
• See Also:List of Registered Historic Places in New York County, New York
• See Also:List of Registered Historic Places in Queens County, New York
• See Also:List of Registered Historic Places in Richmond County, New York

[edit] Historic House Trust

Most of the following are Registered Historic Places covered in the county lists

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Valentine-Varian House Van Cortlandt House Museum Hendrick I. Lott House Lefferts Historic House The Old Stone House The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Gracie Mansion The Little Red Lighthouse Merchant's House Museum Morris-Jumel Mansion Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre King Manor Museum

Kingsland Homestead, also home to the remains of a weeping beech tree that was one of New York City's two "living landmarks"[1] and the 'matriarch' of such trees in the United States[2] Lewis H. Latimer House Queens County Farm Museum Alice Austen House Museum Historic Richmond Town Seguine Mansion The Conference House

[edit] National Parks of New York Harbor

None of these are National Parks

• African Burial Ground National Monument
• Castle Clinton National Monument
• Federal Hall National Memorial
• Fort Wadsworth
• General Grant National Memorial
• Governors Island
• Hamilton Grange National Memorial
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

[edit] Other Historic Sites

• Ellis Island
• Irish Hunger Memorial
• Statue of Liberty
• Weeksville Heritage Center

Following are already listed Registered Historic Places

• Trinity Churchyard
• Fort Schuyler
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center

[edit] World Trade Center site

• International Freedom Center
• World Trade Center Memorial
• Tribute in Light

[edit] Libraries

• The Morgan Library & Museum
• New York Public Library
• New York Academy of Medicine Library
• New York Society Library
• Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
• Frick Art Reference Library
• Biblioteca Instituto Cervantes
• Shevchenko Scientific Society
• United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Cloisters Library and Archives
• Brooklyn Public Library
• Queens Borough Public Library

[edit] See also

• List of museums in the United States
• Museum Mile, New York City

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers (Gale)

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