New York
United States • North America
28
curated places
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two million years of human creativity.
MoMA
Modern art's definitive home.
The Met Breuer
The encyclopedic museum to end all museums. Two million years of human creativity under one roof.
The Met Cloisters
Medieval European art in reassembled monastery architecture overlooking the Hudson. The Unicorn Tapestries alone justify the trip.
The Frick Collection
Old masters in a Fifth Avenue mansion. Vermeer, Bellini, Holbein in rooms scaled for private enjoyment. The garden court is a sanctuary.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Renzo Piano's Whitney building at the foot of the High Line. American art with outdoor terraces and views that compete with the collection.
$$Neue Galerie
German and Austrian art in a Beaux-Arts mansion. Home to Klimt's golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Intimate and exquisite.
$$Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn's encyclopedic museum with strengths in Egyptian, American, and contemporary. First Saturdays are legendary free parties.
$$MoMA PS1
MoMA's Queens outpost in a former public school. Experimental, challenging, and home to the legendary Warm Up summer series.