Best Museums in New York City
New York City is home to 8 world-class museums. From ancient collections to contemporary art, here is your complete guide with opening hours, prices, and directions.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The largest art museum in the Americas with over two million works.
- Admission
- $30 for adults; pay-what-you-wish for NY State residents
- Founded
- 1870
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.
- Admission
- $25 standard admission
- Founded
- 1929
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiralling concrete landmark on Fifth Avenue, dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
- Admission
- $30 standard admission
- Founded
- 1939
Whitney Museum of American Art
Renzo Piano's airy meatpacking-district landmark devoted to twentieth and twenty-first century American art.
- Admission
- $30 standard admission
- Founded
- 1930
The Frick Collection
Industrialist Henry Clay Frick's Old-Master collection in his former Fifth Avenue mansion.
- Admission
- $30 standard admission
- Founded
- 1935
Brooklyn Museum
One of the oldest and largest art museums in the country, with an outstanding Egyptian collection and major American art.
- Admission
- $20 suggested admission
- Founded
- 1895
American Museum of Natural History
One of the world's preeminent natural history museums, beside Central Park on the Upper West Side.
- Admission
- $28 suggested admission for NY residents; $33 for others
- Founded
- 1869
The Morgan Library & Museum
J. P. Morgan's personal library and collection of manuscripts, rare books, and Old-Master drawings.
- Admission
- $25 standard admission
- Founded
- 1924