If it’s cultural enlightenment you crave, New York’s plate is running over. There’s a museum for everything you can imagine. Some of the world’s most recognized museums are located in New York.
The city is home to the Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum, American Art Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), a newly renovated facility, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Another small sampling of cultural art attractions include:
• National Academy Museum
• New Museum of Contemporary Art
• Museum of Arts and Design
• The Frick Collection
• Dahesh Museum
• Brooklyn Museum
• Queens Museum
• PS Contemporary Art Center
• Chelsea Art Museum
What’s more American than New York? As the great “melting pot,” the city hosts numerous museums with histories from around the world that have converged on New York through the years. From George Washington in the Revolutionary War through the present, New York’s museums house it all. Want a peek further back? Visit the American Museum of Natural History to see who was here first!
Visit these museums for a uniquely American flavor:• Fraunces Tavern Museum
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• South Street Seaport Museum
• American Museum of Natural History & Rose Center for Earth & Space
And, of course, while in New York, don’t miss the Museum of the City of New York!
Special interest museums are located throughout the city and include those on everything from photography to sex, FDNY, NYPD, television, radio, fashion, skyscrapers, and just about anything artistic you can imagine.
Nightlife - click here for complete nightlife information from our Visit New York Guide E-zine.
Art isn’t limited to the still life in New York’s museums. Live music including jazz and blues clubs are scattered through the city.
Rock and alternative, comedy clubs, improv, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists, and comic acts inhabit stages throughout New York’s largest and smallest clubs. If you want to know how to find them, all you have to do is just look inside Visit New York Guide’s pages to plan your evening.vIf it’s classical and performing arts like the opera and ballet, we’ve got your seat waiting. We’ve got the latest on the Metropolitan Opera and the American Ballet Theatre, and more. We even feature more specialty bars and lounges including genuine Irish pubs featuring fiddlers and locations of the city’s finest gay and lesbian lounges. Don’t miss our special section on successfully navigating your way behind the velvet ropes. We’ve got a list of dos and don’ts on how to act, what to say, and how to dress to get you inside versus standing in line.
Despite the smoking ban throughout the city, Visit New York Guide has a special section just for smokers to assist them in locating the bars and lounges who are able to continue catering to smokers.
The time is right for arts and nightlife in New York!
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