New York City Museums

The City That Never Sleeps. The Big Apple.The Guggenheim is a vintage piece of architecture
Gotham. New York City has many names andon the Manhattan skyline. The Frank Lloyd Wright
many faces. With 8.2 million people in 322 squaredesign, 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 ofhowever, would be a shame. Rather than point
primary importance, can overwhelm andand check it off your list of New York City
intimidate. Skyscrapers stab the clouds like giantlandmarks, give the museum a few hours of your
steel stalagmites. Yellow cabs dart in and out oftime. The structure represents one of the most
traffic like honeybees. People swarm sidewalkspleasurable in which to view and appreciate art.
and march in unison like ants. Poor visitors get lostThe 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 noname recognition is here, aside from scores of
quarrel. As a result, you should start small andothers. Exhibits in the beautiful main gallery change
parcel the city. Narrow your focus and slice andand rotate throughout the year, with sculpture,
dice The Big Apple into segments. Thinkfilm and canvas on display.
neighborhoods. Think monuments. Think museums.Metropolitan Museum of Art
On that note, Manhattan has some of the best on1000 Fifth Avenue
the planet. A world capital of culture, no NewIn terms of sheer size and scope, few rivals can
York experience would be complete without acompete with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
visit to one or several monumental museums. SoOver 5 million people visit The Met every year,
without further ado, here are New York City'swhich makes it one of the most popular
Must-See Museums.attractions in New York City. The collection is
American Museum of Natural Historyenormous and could easily spawn and furnish
Central Park West at West 79th Streetmany museums at once. Whatever your interest
With one of the most impressive and familiarin art, The Met has an exhibit for you. From
architectural façades in New York City, theAncient Egypt to musical instruments, the Roman
American Museum of Natural History is a majorEmpire to modern art, costumes to Islamic Art,
draw with locals and tourists alike. The museumthere are scant periods, movements and aspects
houses over 32 million specimens, a colossalof art that the museum does not cover. Short on
collection of which only a fraction is available totime? Take a Highlights Tour, which breaks
the public. With 46 permanent exhibition halls, theexhibits down into digestible portions and provides
museum is a prodigious site to navigate. Populara superb overview of The Met.
features include the Fossil Halls, home to twoThe Museum of Modern Art
dinosaur exhibits and the world's foremost11 West 53 Street
collection of vertebrate fossils, and Bird andThe Museum of Modern Art, or MoMa for short,
Mammal Halls. The 11,000 square foot Hall ofis a requisite stop for lovers of modern art and
Biodiversity epitomizes the museum's mission tovisual expression. Exhibits include works of
spread environmental awareness and appreciationphotography, film, sculpture, architecture, design
of our Earth's natural treasures. The most recentand traditional art. A veritable pioneer, the MoMa
structural masterpiece on the Manhattan map iswas 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 planetariumcreative works that reshape our notions of what
complex is a center for research and educationconstitutes 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 Americanwork of art. The interior design of the museum is
Museum of Natural History on your New Yorka fantastic sight to behold and blends light and
City itinerary.space into one unique structure in which to
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumappreciate art.
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