| The City That Never Sleeps. The Big Apple. | | | | The Guggenheim is a vintage piece of architecture |
| Gotham. New York City has many names and | | | | on the Manhattan skyline. The Frank Lloyd Wright |
| many faces. With 8.2 million people in 322 square | | | | design, with iconic spiral staircase, stirs instant |
| miles, the metropolis is dense and frenetic. | | | | visual recognition. To not enter the Guggenheim |
| Manhattan, the New York City borough of | | | | however, would be a shame. Rather than point |
| primary importance, can overwhelm and | | | | and check it off your list of New York City |
| intimidate. Skyscrapers stab the clouds like giant | | | | landmarks, give the museum a few hours of your |
| steel stalagmites. Yellow cabs dart in and out of | | | | time. The structure represents one of the most |
| traffic like honeybees. People swarm sidewalks | | | | pleasurable in which to view and appreciate art. |
| and march in unison like ants. Poor visitors get lost | | | | The Guggenheim collection is remarkable. Every |
| in the Manhattan street grid. | | | | modern and contemporary master with household |
| New York is larger than life. Of this there is no | | | | name recognition is here, aside from scores of |
| quarrel. As a result, you should start small and | | | | others. Exhibits in the beautiful main gallery change |
| parcel the city. Narrow your focus and slice and | | | | and rotate throughout the year, with sculpture, |
| dice The Big Apple into segments. Think | | | | film and canvas on display. |
| neighborhoods. Think monuments. Think museums. | | | | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| On that note, Manhattan has some of the best on | | | | 1000 Fifth Avenue |
| the planet. A world capital of culture, no New | | | | In terms of sheer size and scope, few rivals can |
| York experience would be complete without a | | | | compete with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| visit to one or several monumental museums. So | | | | Over 5 million people visit The Met every year, |
| without further ado, here are New York City's | | | | which makes it one of the most popular |
| Must-See Museums. | | | | attractions in New York City. The collection is |
| American Museum of Natural History | | | | enormous and could easily spawn and furnish |
| Central Park West at West 79th Street | | | | many museums at once. Whatever your interest |
| With one of the most impressive and familiar | | | | in art, The Met has an exhibit for you. From |
| architectural façades in New York City, the | | | | Ancient Egypt to musical instruments, the Roman |
| American Museum of Natural History is a major | | | | Empire to modern art, costumes to Islamic Art, |
| draw with locals and tourists alike. The museum | | | | there are scant periods, movements and aspects |
| houses over 32 million specimens, a colossal | | | | of art that the museum does not cover. Short on |
| collection of which only a fraction is available to | | | | time? Take a Highlights Tour, which breaks |
| the public. With 46 permanent exhibition halls, the | | | | exhibits down into digestible portions and provides |
| museum is a prodigious site to navigate. Popular | | | | a superb overview of The Met. |
| features include the Fossil Halls, home to two | | | | The Museum of Modern Art |
| dinosaur exhibits and the world's foremost | | | | 11 West 53 Street |
| collection of vertebrate fossils, and Bird and | | | | The Museum of Modern Art, or MoMa for short, |
| Mammal Halls. The 11,000 square foot Hall of | | | | is a requisite stop for lovers of modern art and |
| Biodiversity epitomizes the museum's mission to | | | | visual expression. Exhibits include works of |
| spread environmental awareness and appreciation | | | | photography, film, sculpture, architecture, design |
| of our Earth's natural treasures. The most recent | | | | and traditional art. A veritable pioneer, the MoMa |
| structural masterpiece on the Manhattan map is | | | | was the first museum to devote space to |
| the inspirational Rose Center for Earth and Space. | | | | modern art and is the world epicenter for |
| The massive 333,500 square foot planetarium | | | | creative works that reshape our notions of what |
| complex is a center for research and education | | | | constitutes art to begin with. In typical New York |
| that redefines the museum experience altogether. | | | | City fashion, the actual MoMa edifice is itself a |
| All in all, reason alone to include the American | | | | work of art. The interior design of the museum is |
| Museum of Natural History on your New York | | | | a fantastic sight to behold and blends light and |
| City itinerary. | | | | space into one unique structure in which to |
| The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | | | | appreciate art. |
| 1071 Fifth Avenue | | | | |