The Top-10
Top 10 Museums in New York - 2023
Updated Sep 2023
- No.1
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
4.8/52,059 ReviewsNew York8.1km from downtownMuseums
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an absolute gem in New York City. As a cultural enthusiast with a passion for history, culture, and religion, this museum is a paradise of knowledge and inspiration. What makes it even better is that it's free for New Yorkers, a fantastic perk that encourages locals to explore the vast array of art and artifacts from around the world. Walking through its hallowed halls, you'll be immersed in a tapestry of human creativity, from ancient civilizations to contemporary masterpieces. The museum's vast collection includes stunning artworks, sculptures, and historical artifacts that span centuries, cultures, and continents. The exhibitions are meticulously curated, offering deep insights into the rich tapestry of human existence. Whether you're intrigued by ancient civilizations, fascinated by religious artifacts, or simply appreciative of the beauty of human expression, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has something for everyone. From its exquisite Egyptian artifacts to the captivating European paintings, every corner holds a treasure waiting to be discovered. Even beyond the permanent collections, the museum hosts numerous special exhibitions, lectures, and events that further enrich your understanding of the world's history, cultures, and religions. It's a place where you can broaden your horizons and deepen your appreciation for the diverse facets of human civilization. Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art isn't just a museum trip; it's a journey through time, space, and the remarkable ingenuity of humanity. Whether you're a local New Yorker or a curious traveler, this institution is a must-visit, offering an enriching experience that lingers long after you've left its magnificent halls."Highlights: Located in close proximity to the beautiful Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's five major museums. The Museum has art collections in excess of 3 million, holding invaluable artifacts and a art works from across the world, including Egypt, Greece, Rome, Europe, and Asia, and innumerable world-class art treasures such as Egyptian temples, Chinese porcelain, Greek statues, and European paintings. This place is worthy of a whole day's time for an in-depth visit.Show Less - No.2
American Museum of Natural History
4.7/5675 ReviewsNew York7.9km from downtownMuseums
"There's way too much to see! You could probably spend a whole day in there and be just halfway done with the exhibits. It was rather crowded with a lot of children running around but the overall crowd control was pretty decent. It's not too expensive but if you really want to avoid the ticket fees, go in 30 min before closing. It's free but I'm not sure how much of it can you enjoy."Highlights: The American Museum of Natural History has a history of more than 100 years. As soon as you enter the door, you can see two huge dinosaur skeletons resurrected in "Night at the Museum". A large number of specimens and fossils are collected here, covering the entire evolutionary history of human civilization from the beginning of the earth's birth.Show Less - No.3
The Museum of Modern Art
4.7/5402 ReviewsNew York5.8km from downtownMuseums
"MoMA understands its assignment as the world leading modern art museum. lots of renown pieces and most importantly, the museum shop itself is worth to visit"Highlights: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, or MoMA for short, is a cultural icon of New York. Monet's "Water Lilies", Van Gogh's "Starry Night", Matisse's "Dance", Picasso's "Girls of Avignon" and other masterpieces, as well as sculptures, prints, photography, furniture, installation art and other modern artworks as many as 150,000 pieces. The two basement floors of the Modern Art Museum are cinemas, and there are six floors upstairs. The exhibitions are roughly divided into painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, architecture and design, installation art, sculpture and special exhibitions. There is an information desk in the middle of the lobby, and you can ask for a guide map in Chinese.Show Less - No.4
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
4.6/5214 ReviewsNew York5.6km from downtownMuseums
"Experienced the internal structure of the aircraft carrier and submarine, the children like it very much, the light in their eyes is bright, many of the staff are veterans, I can see that they like their work very much, explain to tourists very seriously, and answer tourists questions seriously."Highlights: The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum exhibits include the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, the USS S Growler submarine and a variety of military fighter jets, coast guard rescue helicopters, anti-aircraft and torpedoes. The huge aircraft carrier is docked on the shore and becomes a beautiful scenery along the Hudson River. A simple security check is required before entering the museum, and the main entrance is the lower hangar deck of the aircraft carrier. Above the hangar deck is the flight deck, which is connected by elevators, which can quickly transport the aircraft from the bottom hangar to the flight deck. On the left of the flight deck is the ship island, which is the command center of the aircraft carrier. The command tower, flight control room, navigation room, and radar antenna communication center are all located on the ship island. The deck is full of fighter jets and helicopters, and military fans will surely know the model of these military aircraft. The USSGrowler submarine is currently the only submarine in the world that can be visited by tourists that can launch equipment. Because the interior space of the submarine is extremely small, only 20 people are allowed to enter and visit at a time. The internal metal machines, consoles, detection cabins are all worth seeing.Show Less - No.5
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum
4.5/5183 ReviewsNew York706m from downtownMuseums
"In order to lose the American people's lives in the 9/∙ 11 incident, the site of the 9/∙ 11 terrorist attack in New York, the World Trade Center site, consists of three parts - two square waterfall pools, a museum built underground with a theme, and the trees surrounding them. These trees are designed by American garden designers. I recently came here to visit, it was winter, there was a little rain, the weather was very cold, the surrounding trees have basically lost the leaves, it looks cool."Highlights: After the 9/11 incident that shocked the world, the current 9/11 Memorial and Museum was built on the site of the original World Trade Center. On August 17, 2006, the reconstruction project of the former site of the World Trade Center in New York, USA started. Its main body consists of two pools implying "reflection" and a square. The reconstructed buildings include One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower), Two World Trade Center (200 Greenwich Street), Three World Trade Center (175 Greenwich Street), World Trade Center Four Building No. 1 (150 Greenwich Street), Building 5 World Trade Center (130 Liberty Street), Building 7 World Trade Center Museum Facilities September 11 National Memorial Museum Transportation Facilities World Trade Center Station. About 23,000 related pictures and more than 10,000 objects are displayed in the museum, among which the text messages and voice messages sent by the victims to their relatives or lovers at the end of their lives are particularly moving.Show Less - No.6
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
4.6/5167 ReviewsNew York8.6km from downtownMuseums
"worth a visit. the architecture itself is very inspirational."Highlights: The white spiral exterior of the Guggenheim Museum was designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and the visiting route is from the sixth floor down the spiral staircase. The museum exhibits mainly modern and contemporary art works, and is very famous for the original works of Van Gogh and Picasso. The museum in New York is a very large one under the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, next to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum. The souvenir shop on the first floor, you can buy clothes, crafts and books full of design sense.Show Less - No.7
The Morgan Library & Museum
4.5/554 ReviewsNew York4.4km from downtownMuseums
"When I heard that this treasure classical museum in Midtown New York has a rich library collection museum, I immediately added it to the punch list, and after shopping, I immediately upgraded to New York's favorite Top3 museum series, whether it is the appearance of the museum or the exhibits inside. It's a surprise. Such a spectacular museum is the famous private collection of J. P. Morgan, and there are many of his donations in the Metropolitan Museum. Seeing the library of books on a grand scale, I instantly realized the true meaning of the old saying that the book has its own golden house. The museum itself is also very architectural, from the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano, the library and the museum itself are very cleverly integrated together, the classical library, looking up is full of books, with deep red printed walls and velvet curtains, Full of literary temperament, it must be a different kind of enjoyment to read here"Highlights: The Morgan Library and Museum originally belonged to the famous American financier Morgan. It is a private library with Renaissance art features and opened to the public in 1924. Morgan is also a collector, and the rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints and artifacts on display here are part of his collection.Show Less - No.8
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square
4.0/539 ReviewsNew York4.9km from downtownMuseums"Here, you will encounter all kinds of novel and strange exhibits. When you enter the exhibition hall, it can be said to start a strange trip to New York. The exhibits all subvert the imagination. Just like the museum's name: Believe It or Not! You believe that the world, the face of hair, the tongue is divided in half, and the top can light candles. With multimedia interactive display, it opens a wonderful journey, which is the world's most curious museum. The museum was founded and built by the explorer Robert L. Ripley. He was the author of the comics column of the New York Global Times, traveling to 198 countries around the world to collect wonderful people from all over the world."Highlights: Believe it or not, the museum is located next to Times Square in Manhattan. The museum covers an area of 1,800 square meters and contains many original works and 500 replicas. The collections of the museum are all related to a man named Robert Ripley. He is a cartoonist who has visited nearly 200 countries and regions in the past 40 years. description of his experience.Show Less - No.9
The Frick Collection
4.5/546 ReviewsNew York7.1km from downtownMuseums
"This is the most famous private museum in the United States. The Frik Private Museum has a lot of its master's collections, especially oil paintings. There are a lot of masterpieces to enjoy. The museum itself is a very beautiful building. The decoration inside is particularly gorgeous."Highlights: The Frick Private Museum exhibits as many as 1,000 European paintings, sculptures and decorative artworks, which are the masterpieces of Henry Clay Frick's lifetime collection. You can admire masterpieces such as Monet and Turner here, and the European classical-style garden courtyard is also worth seeing.Show Less - No.10
New York Botanical Garden
4.3/554 ReviewsNew York19.6km from downtownMuseums
"[New York ❥ New York] The grass-room Yasuo Show at the New York Botanical Garden, a good place ✔️ When you don't want to do any work, then take a break, don't do it or don't want to, stay with your family quietly, or look quietly at the distant sky, let your thoughts stop and take a vacation. People can't be energetic every day, or excited every day, allow themselves to squat a little, and then squat a little, until they feel they can stop, then pack up, stand up again, go out, and complete everything you should and want to complete."Highlights: The New York Botanical Garden is located in Brooks, New York, and contains 50 different gardens. Visitors can visit stepped waterfalls, wetlands, and a 20-hectare uncut New York forest of oak, American beech, cherry, birch, tulip and ash, some more than 200 years old . The important attractions of the New York Botanical Garden include the "Crystal Palace" wrought iron greenhouse, now called Haupt Conservatory, Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, Rock Garden; about 15 hectares of coniferous forest. Academic facilities include a dissemination center, a library with 550,000 volumes and a herbarium with more than 7 million specimens dating back 300 years.Show Less - No.11
The Met Cloisters
4.5/541 ReviewsNew York17.9km from downtownMuseums"Founded in 1938, the Monastery is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the collection and exhibition of medieval art and architecture. The most striking point is that the main building in the museum is the building of five medieval monastery churches that have been moved from France. It is built in Roman and Gothic styles. There are also three atrium gardens in the museum, which overlook the river and rock walls from the outside. Unlike the metropolitan pavilion next to the lively Central Park, this side is like crossing into the time tunnel, entering the ancient buildings of the Middle Ages, quiet and leisurely with a touch of mystery, and there are fewer tourists here, you can quietly slow down to enjoy the exhibits."Highlights: As a branch of the Metropolitan Museum, the Abbey Museum mainly exhibits paintings and works of art from the Middle Ages in Europe. There are more than 2,000 art treasures in this classical castle-like museum, and the lush gardens and courtyards are available for visitors to rest.Show Less - No.12
Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
4.6/568 ReviewsNew York3.3km from downtownMuseums
"When visiting Liberty Island, it’s a must to visit Ellis Island to learn more about immigrants to the US during 1900s."Highlights: The Ellis Island Immigration Museum has three floors and provides free audio guides. You can visit the immigration area, luggage room, medical examination room, etc. according to the route. Photos of immigrants from all over the world are hung on the walls, and their eyes are full of hope. Now Ellis Island is no longer the only channel for immigration to the United States. Only pictures and ruins are still telling the history of immigration.Show Less - No.13
9/11 Museum Workshop: 100 Images & Artifacts Exhibit
4.4/517 ReviewsNew York3km from downtownMuseums
"Truly heartbreaking but amazing the work that's gone into creating this museum. Most moving memories of all those lost x RIP x"Highlights: This is where the "9.11" terrorist attacks took place, and there are many immersive photos preserved in this small museum. After entering, you will first watch the video. The content of the video is the operating background of the museum and how it is related to the historical events of 9/11. Afterwards, the visits were mainly photo recordings, and these exhibits reflected the incident and some touching stories after the incident. All the exhibits undoubtedly reflect a kind of power, persistence and belief in life, and confidence in reconstruction.Show Less - No.14
Museum of the City of New York
4.4/525 ReviewsNew York9.8km from downtownMuseums
"Metro Line 6, 103St Get off and walk for 10 minutes in the direction of Central Park. Turn right to the end and you will be the legendary New York City Museum. The fare is 20 knives for adults, and a small square sticker is given after paying, and it is required to be posted on the clothes. Closed at 5 o'clock, you have to grasp the visit time. Today, it seems that you are preparing a banquet. The aisle is messy. The price is deducted."Highlights: The Museum of the City of New York collection showcases the past, present and future of New York's five boroughs in lithographs, photography, comics, costumes, and more. In 2011, the Museum of the City of New York opened a new art space with a glass exterior that includes a cold storage for valuable photography.Show Less - No.15
The Jewish Museum
4.5/548 ReviewsNew York8.9km from downtownMuseums"As a museum next to Central Park, which is open for free on Saturday, this niche museum has also punched in several times. Every time I meet in Central Park, I don’t know where the next stop is. I will come to visit a wave. I am in the Upper East Side of the museum. I feel that this museum is compared. There are many niches, and it is different from the lively popularity of other museums. Even on weekends, there will not be too many people, and you can quietly enjoy the exhibits and visit. Founded in 1904, the Jewish Museum in New York is said to be the third largest Jewish theme museum in the world, with a collection of more than 30,000 exhibits. The museum's special exhibition is constantly updated, so every time you come to visit, you will have a different tour experience, there is no need to worry about getting tired of shopping, the more impressive is the previous clothing exhibition. The collections of Jewish museums are usually two categories, one is Jewish art creations, and the other is works of art related to Jewish cultural life."Highlights: The Jewish Museum of New York is located on Museum Avenue, and exhibits nearly 30,000 cultural relics, antiques, folk art, utensils and works of art, which well displays Jewish history and culture, as well as many Jewish modern and contemporary art works. The museum regularly hosts special exhibitions such as Jewish Journeys, Culture and Continuity.Show Less - No.16
Federal Hall
4.2/564 ReviewsNew York851m from downtownMuseums
"This scene is often seen in large American films: behind the majestic Washington statue, there are eight columns of Greek temple-style majestic buildings. Because it is the site of Washington's swearing-in as president, the National Memorial Hall of the Federation has become a place for patriotic education; because it is close to the Trinity Church, the copper cattle, and the cruise ship terminal, it has become a must-have road for Chinese tourists, and it has been a bustling and endless flow of people."Highlights: Federal Hall National Memorial is located on Wall Street, opposite the New York Stock Exchange. It was the seat of the first Congress of the United States, where Washington was sworn in as President of the United States. The Memorial Hall is an ancient Greek-style marble building. There are 8 simple and elegant circular columns standing on the steps, and the bronze statue of Washington is located in the center under the steps. stock exchange. Today, the building serves as a memorial to display the U.S. Constitution. The Memorial Hall is free to visit and free for people to learn more about the history of the United States. After entering the hall, the stone tablet in the hall recorded a solemn moment when Washington was sworn in here - April 30, 1789. The Memorial Hall is divided into three floors, the first and second floors are relatively empty, and there are some exhibits, from which you can learn about some of the history of the United States and the history of the United States Constitution. The tour can be completed in about 20 minutes. The third floor is the office and congress room, which is closed on weekdays and only open for group lectures. After the visit, you can take pictures in front of the door, or you can take a picture of the stock exchange opposite. New Yorkers have always regarded the bronze statue of Washington in front of the door as the patron saint of the exchange. It is he who guards Wall Street day and night and protects the prosperity of the American financial industry. However, as a political center, Wall Street is only a short-lived moment, but as a financial center, it has always been brilliant and enduring.Show Less - No.17
Spyscape
4.5/56 ReviewsNew York6km from downtownMuseums
"The Spy Museum is a very alternative museum, there are not many people to visit, but the location is very good. However, for people like us who are more English-speaking. It is more difficult to read."Highlights: The spy museum called "Spyscape" is located in a nondescript two-story building in Manhattan, New York, and is now a place to explore the mysteries of spy culture. Spyscape is experientially "compatible" with entertainment and cultural elements: part museum, part rides. The immersive experience begins with an oversized "briefing elevator". In about three minutes, accompanied by the video of Blade Runner 2049 playing around, the elevator slowly ascends, gradually bringing visitors into the realm of Spyscape. Once the elevator doors open, visitors arrive at the main floor of the "city within a city": seven galleries showcasing themes such as "crypto" and "special operations." In addition to the collected items, there are 141 live screens, 317 speakers, 113 live cameras and 32 projectors to tell all kinds of spy stories.Show Less - No.18
New York Hall of Science
4.5/523 ReviewsNew York13.5km from downtownMuseums
"The New York Science Museum is located in the old World Museum in New York. The whole park is also very beautiful. The science museum is oversized. No matter how old or young, I think it is very suitable for adults and children to come and play and learn scientific knowledge."Highlights: The New York Museum of Science is located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York, USA. It was used as an exhibition site for the 1964 New York World's Fair. The New York Museum of Science is the only science and technology center in New York City today, with more than 400 exhibits on chemistry, physics and biology. The main visitors of the New York Museum of Science today are children aged 1-17, and the exhibits in the museum are also mostly in line with children's tastes and preferences. The New York Museum of Science has a permanent collection of many exhibits and often does some traveling exhibitions.Show Less - No.19
International Center of Photography Museum
4.5/533 ReviewsNew York1.5km from downtownMuseums"Visitors who like to play photography must visit here. There are a lot of equipment introduced, and you can also enjoy the masterpieces of international photography masters here. A very wonderful museum, see a lot of famous photography works." - No.20
National Museum of Mathematics
4.6/526 ReviewsNew York3.6km from downtownMuseums"The Mathematics Museum thought it was a very deep museum at first, and was still hesitant to go in. But after entering, I found that this is a relatively small museum, and the fun of introducing mathematics in depth is very interesting."Highlights: Most of the exhibits in the National Mathematical Museum are dynamic exhibits, which encourage visitors to touch and interact at close range, and stimulate people's interest in mathematics with lively and interesting interactive displays. Of particular interest is the Pi Festival on March 14 each year, with special exhibitions and events.Show Less
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