The best museums in New York City
The top 3 according to 29 votes from people: Whitney Museum of American Art · Brooklyn Museum · National September 11 Memorial & Museum. (Updated Apr 11, 2024.)
From the Met to the Tenement Museum: the NYC museums ranked highest by Frommer's, AAA, art guides and TripAdvisor travellers.
Top 10
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Whitney Museum of American Art
20th- and 21st-century American art in Renzo Piano's building at the foot of the High Line.
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Brooklyn Museum
One of the city's largest museums, with Egyptian art and Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party.
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National September 11 Memorial & Museum
TripAdvisor travellers' top-rated NYC museum, built in the foundations of the Twin Towers.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral rotunda on Fifth Avenue.
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Tenement Museum
Restored Lower East Side tenement apartments telling the stories of immigrant families.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere, with over 5 million visitors a year.
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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Arguably the world's finest modern art collection, from Van Gogh to Pollock.
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American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaur halls, dioramas, the Hayden Planetarium and the Gilder Center.
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The Frick Collection
Old Masters by Vermeer, Rembrandt and Holbein in Henry Clay Frick's Fifth Avenue mansion.
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10
Neue Galerie
German and Austrian art including Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
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Intrepid Museum
Aircraft carrier on the Hudson with the Space Shuttle Enterprise and a Concorde.
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New York Transit Museum
Vintage subway cars in a decommissioned 1936 station in Brooklyn.
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Comments (1)
The Met could take a week, pick a few wings.