New York's Top 10 Museums: From the Met to the Transit Museum
New York City boasts a vibrant museum landscape, featuring the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds over two million artifacts, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Queer Art, showcasing 22,000 pieces. Located on the Upper East Side, the Met offers late hours on Fridays and Saturdays, including an Egyptian wing. Midtown's MoMA features a five-story atrium and an outdoor sculpture garden. The Whitney Museum, designed by Renzo Piano and inaugurated in 2015, provides free entry on Fridays and the second Sunday of each month. The Met Cloisters exhibits medieval cloisters and unicorn tapestries, while the American Museum of Natural History displays dinosaur skeletons and the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Opened in 1959, the Guggenheim houses notable Kandinsky works. The Tenement Museum conducts guided tours, and the Brooklyn Museum features Judy Chicago's 'The Dinner Party.' Additionally, the New York Transit Museum preserves vintage cars.
Key facts
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 2 million objects covering 5,000 years of art history.
- MoMA's outdoor sculpture garden features works by Maillol, Whiteread, Matisse, and Picasso.
- The Whitney offers free admission on Fridays from 5-10 p.m. and all day on the second Sunday of each month.
- The Met Cloisters was founded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the 1930s and includes actual medieval cloisters.
- The American Museum of Natural History has a 2-million-square-foot footprint and employs 200 scientists.
- The Guggenheim, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in 1959 and has a spiral ramp.
- The Tenement Museum requires guided tours and is located on Orchard Street.
- The Brooklyn Museum opened in 1897 and houses Judy Chicago's 'The Dinner Party'.
- The New York Transit Museum is housed in a 1936 subway station.
- The Leslie-Lohman Museum holds 22,000 works of queer art.
Entities
Artists
- Raphael
- Lee Krasner
- Jackson Pollock
- Aristide Maillol
- Rachel Whiteread
- Henri Matisse
- Pablo Picasso
- Andy Warhol
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- David Hockney
- Berenice Abbott
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Judy Chicago
- George Grey Barnard
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Institutions
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Met Cloisters
- Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
- American Museum of Natural History
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Tenement Museum
- Brooklyn Museum
- New York Transit Museum
- Lonely Planet
Locations
- New York City
- United States
- Manhattan
- Upper East Side
- Midtown
- West Village
- Meatpacking District
- Washington Heights
- SoHo
- Brooklyn
- Prospect Heights
- Lower East Side
- Central Park
- Fifth Avenue
- 81st Street
- 86th Street
- 190th Street
- Canal Street
- Broadway-Lafayette
- Grand Street
- Delancey Street
- Essex Street
- Eastern Parkway
- Borough Hall
- Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets
- Court Street
- Grand Central Terminal
- Fort Tryon Park
- Hudson River
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Sources
- Quartz —