Art[sin] Crafts

New York City has museums of every kind, for every kind of visitor. My quest: to visit them all.

What follows is a list of the museums in New York City. If you see an asterisk by the name of the museum, that means it has been checked off the list. Once visited, I will post a hyperlink to the museum’s site. Once it is all said and done, I will provide my top 10. Check back periodically to see my progress.

Let the art walk begin…

• African American Wax Museum
• Alice Austen House Museum
• American Craft Museum
• American Folk Art Museum*
• American Folk Art Museum (Branch Location)*
• American Irish Historical Society
• American Museum of Natural History*
• American Museum of the Moving Image
• American Numismatic Society
• Americas Society
• Artists Space
• Asia Society and Museum
• Bronx Museum of the Arts
• The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens*
• The Brooklyn Children’s Museum
• The Brooklyn Museum of Art*
• Carnegie Hall/Rose Museum
• Central Park Zoo/Wildlife Gallery
• The Children’s Museum of the Arts
• Children’s Museum of Manhattan
• The Cloisters*
• Cooper-Hewitt
• Dahesh Museum
• Dia Center for the Arts
• The Drawing Center
• Ellis Island Museum
• Empire State Building Lobby Gallery
• Museum at FIT
• Forbes Magazine Galleries
• The Frick Collection* (see the IB blog post here)
• Grey Art Gallery
• Goethe House
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum*
• Guggenheim Museum SoHo
• The Hispanic Society of America
• International Center of Photography
• Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
• Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
• Jewish Museum (free Saturdays)
• LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Madame Tussaud’s New York
• Merchant’s House Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art*
• The Morgan Library
• Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
• Municipal Art Society
• El Museo Del Barrio
• Museum for African Art
• Museum of American Financial History
• Museum of Chinese in the Americas
• Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art*
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Museum of Modern Art*
• Museum of the City of New York*
• Museum of the Moving Image
• Museum of Sex
• Museum of Television and Radio
• National Academy Museum
• National Design Museum
• National Museum of the American Indian
• New Jersey Children’s Museum
• New Museum of Contemporary Art
• New York Botanical Garden
• New York City Fire Museum
• New York City Police Museum
• New York Hall of Science
• New-York Historical Society
• New York Public Library*
• New York Transit Museum
• Nicholas Roerich Museum
• PS1 Contemporary Art Center
• Pierpont Morgan Library
• Queens Historical Society
• Queens Museum of Art
• Rose Center for Earth and Space
• Ruben Art Museum*
• Schomburg Center
• Seaman’s Church Institute
• Skyscraper Museum
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• Sony Wonder Technology Lab
• South Street Seaport Museum
• Staten Island Institute
• Studio Museum in Harlem (free on Sundays)
• Taipei Gallery
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
• Ukrainian Museum
• Wave Hill
• Whitney Museum of American Art* (pay what you wish 6-9 Fridays)
• Whitney Museum/Philip Morris