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Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of Museums.

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art

9.5
1000 5th Ave (btwn E 80th & E 84th St), New York, NY
Art Museum · 1961 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: The best place to gawk at priceless art has a collection that is seemingly endless, spanning creepy Egyptian tombs to the shimmering Impressionist paintings to an unparalleled costume collection. Read more.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of Museums.

2. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

9.3
11 W 53rd St (btwn 5th & 6th Ave), New York, NY
Art Museum · Midtown East · 1870 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: The best museum to spend the day in boasts unparalleled holdings in 20th- and 21st-century art, the Sette MoMA restaurant, a plush movie theater and the MoMA Design Store. Read more.

3. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

8.7
1071 5th Ave (at E 89th St), New York, NY
Art Museum · Carnegie Hill · 567 tips and reviews

BLOUIN ARTINFOBLOUIN ARTINFO: Frank Lloyd Wright's postwar jewel was protested by many artists when he debuted, but it has become a modern landmark for the city. Read more.

Brooklyn Museum is one of Museums.

4. Brooklyn Museum

9.4
200 Eastern Pkwy (at Washington Ave), Brooklyn, NY
Art Museum · 423 tips and reviews

5. New Museum

7.9
235 Bowery (btwn Stanton & Rivington St), New York, NY
Art Museum · Lower East Side · 204 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: Designed by the Japanese architects SANAA: “The visual signals this building sends—it is at once crisp and pliable, solid and permeable—seem deliberately ambiguous.” Read more.

6. Whitney Museum of American Art

9.2
99 Gansevoort St (btwn 10th Ave & Washington St), New York, NY
Art Museum · Meatpacking District · 434 tips and reviews

The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal: Get here fast because the museum is moving downtown to the Meatpacking District. Their new six-story, 195,000-square-foot building will be designed by Renzo Piano and cost $680 million. Read more.

MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center is one of Museums.

7. MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center

8.8
2225 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave), Queens, NY
Art Museum · Hunters Point · 196 tips and reviews
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum is one of Museums.

8. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

9.3
2 E 91st St (at 5th Ave), New York, NY
Art Museum · Carnegie Hill · 142 tips and reviews

9. The Noguchi Museum

9.2
9-01 33rd Rd (at Vernon Blvd), Long Island City, NY
Art Museum · 68 tips and reviews

BLOUIN ARTINFOBLOUIN ARTINFO: An oasis of transporting sculptures and calm, Zen-like environments designed by Japanese-American modernist Isamu Noguchi.

Museum of the City of New York is one of Museums.

10. Museum of the City of New York

8.9
1220 5th Ave (at E 103rd St), New York, NY
History Museum · East Harlem · 148 tips and reviews

BLOUIN ARTINFOBLOUIN ARTINFO: Check out the New York Interiors (1690-1906) permanent exhibition. It features elements of New York domestic environments from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. Read more.

School of Visual Arts is one of Museums.

11. School of Visual Arts

209 E 23rd St (btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave.), New York, NY
University · Rose Hill · 12 tips and reviews
El Museo del Barrio is one of Museums.

12. El Museo del Barrio

8.2
1230 5th Ave (btwn E 104th & E 105th St), New York, NY
Art Museum · Central Park · 55 tips and reviews

BLOUIN ARTINFOBLOUIN ARTINFO: El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 highlights the most innovative, cutting-edge art being produced by emerging Latino and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New York area. Read more.

13. Museum of the City of New York

8.9
1220 5th Ave (at E 103rd St), New York, NY
History Museum · East Harlem · 148 tips and reviews

14. The Morgan Library & Museum

9.2
225 Madison Ave (btwn E 36th & E 37th St), New York, NY
Museum · Murray Hill · 179 tips and reviews
The Jewish Museum is one of Museums.

15. The Jewish Museum

9.4
1109 5th Ave (at E 92nd St), New York, NY
Museum · Carnegie Hill · 73 tips and reviews
Bronx Museum of the Arts is one of Museums.

16. Bronx Museum of the Arts

9.1
1040 Grand Concourse (at E 165th St.), Bronx, NY
Art Museum · Concourse · 40 tips and reviews
The Frick Collection is one of Museums.

17. The Frick Collection

8.9
1 E 70th St (at 5th Ave), New York, NY
Art Museum · Upper East Side · 212 tips and reviews

18. Katonah Museum of Art

6.9
134 Jay St, Katonah, NY
Art Museum · 9 tips and reviews
Pace Gallery is one of Museums.

19. Pace Gallery

8.4
32 East 57th Street New York (Madison), New York, NY
Art Gallery · Midtown East · 7 tips and reviews
New York Public Library - 67th Street Library is one of Museums.

20. New York Public Library - 67th Street Library

8.7
328 E 67th St (btwn 1st & 2nd Ave), New York, NY
Library · Upper East Side · 9 tips and reviews