Frick House is the 2nd best deal in New York for museums.  One of the most comprehensive museums right next door to the Metropolitan Museum and easily missed.  Set in the beautiful mansion of Henry...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest encyclopedic art museum in the world under a single roof.  Art works from all periods and cultures are displayed.  Recent renovations, still in...

This museum, located in an actual tenement, is dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of the immigrant experience on New York City's Lower East Side.

 Ellis Island is amazing. You need to get there early. Catch  the first ferry to the Statue of Liberty  and looked around. After that you can catch another ferry to Ellis Island. Get there early as...

Visitors to this technology center learn about audio, imaging, robotics, design and network through interactive exhibits, and are directed through the experience by "b.b. wonderbot," a telepresence robot.

Branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that was constructed out of sections of French medieval monasteries, offers an extensive collection of statues, paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries.

The Intrepid returns. After a two year refurbishment, the Intrepid return to Pier 86. The new museum reopens on November 8, 2008. See the website for more details. 

Two marble lions mark the entrance to this Beaux Arts masterpiece, a National Historic Landmark containing more than six million books.

Home of the largest collection of artwork created between 1880 and the present.

A museum displaying works of art by German and Austrian artists and designers.

Museum that focuses on historical and contemporary works of African-American artists.

Major Exhibition Explores How a Young Nation Took Inspiration from a Champion of Freedom and Independence. The New-York Historical Society will shine a spotlight on one of America's first national heroes, the Marquis de Lafayette "Revolutionary War general, 'adopted son' of George Washington, diplomat and international champion of individual liberty“ whose name is all around us, but whose legacy is unknown to most Americans, in its new exhibition, French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to Washington's America, opening Friday, November 16 and running through August 10, 2008, at the New-York Historical Society (Central Park West and 77th Street.)

Interactive, modernized exhibits and an IMAX theater help bring this museum, dedicated to understanding the past, into the 21st century.

Housed along with the collected books and manuscripts of J. Pierpont Morgan, the Treasures of the Royal Tombs of Ur include beautiful jewelry and trinkets from ancient Sumeria.

Museum that is dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of the cultures and history of the native peoples of the Americas through an extensive collection including archaeological objects from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, film and video archives, and contemporary prints and negatives.

An unusual museum with exhibits of the history of law enforcement in New York.