# The best museums in New York City

From the Met to the Tenement Museum: the NYC museums ranked highest by Frommer's, AAA, art guides and TripAdvisor travellers.

- 29 votes · 12 items
- Apr 11, 2024 · globetrotter95
- https://even.best/en/l/168/the-best-museums-in-new-york-city

## Top 10

1. **Whitney Museum of American Art** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 20th- and 21st-century American art in Renzo Piano's building at the foot of the High Line. <https://whitney.org/>
2. **Brooklyn Museum** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — One of the city's largest museums, with Egyptian art and Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party. <https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/>
3. **National September 11 Memorial & Museum** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — TripAdvisor travellers' top-rated NYC museum, built in the foundations of the Twin Towers. <https://www.911memorial.org/>
4. **Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral rotunda on Fifth Avenue. <https://www.guggenheim.org/>
5. **Tenement Museum** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Restored Lower East Side tenement apartments telling the stories of immigrant families. <https://www.tenement.org/>
6. **The Metropolitan Museum of Art** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere, with over 5 million visitors a year. <https://www.metmuseum.org/>
7. **Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Arguably the world's finest modern art collection, from Van Gogh to Pollock. <https://www.moma.org/>
8. **American Museum of Natural History** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Dinosaur halls, dioramas, the Hayden Planetarium and the Gilder Center. <https://www.amnh.org/>
9. **The Frick Collection** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Old Masters by Vermeer, Rembrandt and Holbein in Henry Clay Frick's Fifth Avenue mansion. <https://www.frick.org/>
10. **Neue Galerie** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — German and Austrian art including Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. <https://www.neuegalerie.org/>
11. **Intrepid Museum** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Aircraft carrier on the Hudson with the Space Shuttle Enterprise and a Concorde. <https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/>
12. **New York Transit Museum** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Vintage subway cars in a decommissioned 1936 station in Brooklyn. <https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/>

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