The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.
www.amnh.org
The Children's Museum of the Arts focuses on all forms of visual art and encourages children to experiment artistically through interactive learning.
182 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 274-0986 www.cmany.org
Cooper-Hewitt, part of the Smithsonian Institution, focuses exclusively on historic and contemporary design. Located on Museum Mile, it occupies the beautifully restored former mansion of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
Two East 91st Street New York, NY 10128
Phone: (212) 849-8300 www.cooperhewitt.org
Originally built of brick, fieldstone and wood in 1784, Dyckman House is Manhattan's last surviving Colonial farmhouse. The house contains relics and heirlooms from early Colonial life and the Revolutionary War. Dyckman House sponsors an annual springtime chamber music concert series in addition to the Inwood Arts Festival and the Folk Arts Festival.
4881 Broadway New York, NY 10034
Phone: (212) 304-9422 www.dyckmanfarmhouse.org
Twelve million immigrants passed through the buildings of Ellis Island between the years 1892 and 1954. Galleries filled with artifacts, historic photographs, posters, maps, oral histories and ethnic music evoke their experience and the cultures they brought with them to American shores.
Ellis Island New York, NY 10004
Phone: (212) 363-3200 www.nps.gov/elis
Federal Hall National Memorial, the site of George Washington’s swearing-in as the first president of the United States, is maintained by the National Park Service. The history of this famed locale comes alive through guided tours and second-floor gallery exhibitions.
26 Wall Street New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 825-6888 www.nps.gov
The mission of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of visual culture, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, and to collect, conserve, and study the art of our time. The Foundation realizes this mission through exceptional exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications, and strives to engage and educate an increasingly diverse international audience through its unique network of museums and cultural partnerships.
www.guggenheim.com
ICP presents over 20 exhibitions a year, exploring the diversity of the medium - from documentary photography to digital imagery. The collection houses more than 45,000 original photographic prints representing some 600 photographers.
1133 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 857-0000 www.icp.org
Created in the 1960s, this performing arts complex is one of the most comprehensive urban redevelopment projects in New York City's history.
Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 875-5000 Box Office: (212) 721-6500
www.lincolncenter.org
As many as 18 people shared some of the three-room flats of the tenement at 97 Orchard Street during its 72 years as a residential building. Today, this building, now restored, along with another across the street, houses the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a memorial to the immigrant families who lived there during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
108 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 982-8420 www.tenement.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses an encyclopedic collection of art objects from virtually all periods and continents.
1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028
Phone: (212) 535-7710 www.metmuseum.org
Located at the north end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, El Museo del Barrio is New York City's only museum dedicated exclusively to Latin-American and Latino art.
1230 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029
Phone: (212) 831-7272 www.elmuseo.org
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A Living Memorial to the Holocaust aims to teach and interpret the story of the 20th-century Jewish experience. The tragedy of intolerance and human suffering is balanced by the universal themes of hope, regeneration and triumph.
36 Battery Place, Battery Park City New York, NY 10004
Phone: (646) 437-4200 www.mjhnyc.org
Since opening in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art has secured its place as a collector and exhibitor of modern art - from 19th-century Post-Impressionism to contemporary installations. MoMA's collection includes painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, film, architecture and design.
11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 708-9400 www.moma.org
The Museum of the City of New York explores aspects of New York history and culture through its collections, housed in a 5 story Georgian Colonial building near the top of Fifth Avenue’s Museum Mile.
1220 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029
Phone: (212) 534-1672 www.mcny.org
The one million objects in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian span the entire Western Hemisphere - from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego and from California to the Caribbean. Permanent and temporary exhibitions, music and dance presentations, films and symposia explore the diversity of the Native peoples of the Americas, as well as the strength and continuity of their cultures.
George Gustav Heye Center
One Bowling Green New York, NY 10004
Phone: (212) 514-3700 www.americanindian.si.edu
The New-York Historical Society has for almost two centuries collected, preserved and displayed a collection of art and artifacts related to the history of New York City and State. That collection, much of which is housed in a "visibble storage" facility, includes 1.6 million objects.
170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024-519
Phone: (212) 873-3400
The South Street Seaport Museum is an 11-square-block historic district of stone-paved streets and 19th-century commercial buildings. It encompasses four galleries, a fleet of historic sailing ships, exhibitions of maritime art and artifacts, and a re-creation of a 19th-century printing shop.
12 Fulton Street New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 748-8600 www.southstseaport.org
A Broadway theater experience in miniature is the best way to describe the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park.
Central Park at 79th Street New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 988-9093 www.cityparksfoundation.org
TADA! produces original musicals for family audiences performed by TADA!'s youth ensemble, ages 8 to 17.
5 West 28th Street, 3rd floor New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 252-1619 www.tadatheater.com
The home in which Theodore Roosevelt lived until he was 14 has been reconstructed with 1865 period rooms and galleries. The museum contains the largest display anywhere of memorabilia related to this man, including artifacts from his youth, his days as a rancher and explorer and his presidency.
28 East 20th Street New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 260-1616 www.nps.gov/thrb
In the galleries of Marcel Breuer's landmark building, children can explore modern masterpieces and discover what's new and compelling about art today.
945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021
Phone: (212) 570-7745 www.whitney.org
The Sonywonder Technology Lab, one of just a handful of free museums in New York, houses four floors of wonderful hands-on interactive activities and exhibits, perfect for children’s inquiring minds.
East 56th St and Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 833-8100 www.sonywondertechlab.com
We like the way the Children's Museum of Manhattan has designed its displays to focus on the special abilities and interests of specific age groups.
212 West 83rd Street New York, NY 10022
(212) 721-1234 www.cmom.org
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