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One of most celebrated civic gifts made by the bankers and robber barons of New York's gilded age, the Morgan Library is the remarkable and eclectic private library of Pierpont Morgan, made public. In the late nineteenth century, book- and manuscript-collecting was not yet the aspirational fad it... more

The largest art museum in the Western hemisphere, the Met is without rival the world over. 35 acres -- more than 1.6 million square feet -- of floor space, more than 3.3 million works of art, a collection that spans the entire length of human history with specialty collections at every major point... more

A living memorial to the holocaust, the Museum of Jewish Heritage first opened in 1997 at the southern tip of Manhattan Island. The Museum is dedicated to preserving the memory of those who perished in the holocaust. The museum features exhibitions of photojournalism about Jews in World War II,... more

An arts collective and performance space on Rivington Street, the Lower East Side's preeminent hipster strip, ABC No Rio aims to be a cultural incubator that combines community and political activism with dynamic artistic production. Now in its 25th year, the organization remains a significant... more

A delightful patchwork, artifact-based history of leading American Indian cultures stretching back a remarkable 10,000 years, the National Museum of the American Indian is administered remotely by Washington, D.C.’s authoritative Smithsonian Institution. Much of the collection here was assembled... more

Located, with the impressive Museo del Barrio, on the often overlooked northern stretch of Manhattan's Museum Mile, the Museum of the City of New York offers a compelling, if merely guidebook-level narrative of the world's most miraculous urban history. Dedicated as much to the invigorating ethnic... more