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Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
At Madame Tussaud’s New York, you will be able to mingle with nearly 200 amazingly life-like wax figures, including Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jackson, Madonna and even Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.
Open 365 days a year from 10:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday, last ticket sold at 8:00 p.m. Friday through Sunday, last ticket sold at 10:00 p.m.
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Intrepid Air and Sea Museum
After being closed for a lengthy renovation, the museum reopened to the public on Nov 8th 2008.
One of the most successful ships in US history is now one of the most unique attractions in New York City. Berthed on the mighty Hudson River in Manhattan, the Museum boasts educational exhibits and exciting events.
Spring / Summer Hours (April 1 – September 28)
Weekdays 10:00am-5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 10:00am-6:00pm
Fall / Winter Hours (October 1 – March 31)
Mondays Closed
Tuesday through Sunday 10:00am-5:00pm
Open all Holidays except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum has specimens of different categories of art from all over the world during every epoch of recorded time .
Going through the entire Met is a full day affair. Within are more than two million works of art including arts of Africa, Asia, Europe, Egypt, Greece, Rome, medieval art, musical instruments, photographs, and 20th-century art.
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Guggenheim Museum
Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City.
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The American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum is the leading center for the study and enjoyment of American folk art, as well as the work of international self-taught artists. It is located at 45 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in Midtown Manhattan (New York City, USA).
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Tribute WTC Visitor Center
Tribute WTC Visitor Center offers visitors to the World Trade Center site a place where they can connect with people from the September 11th community. Through walking tours, exhibits and programs, the Tribute WTC Visitor Center offers “Person to Person History,” linking visitors who want to understand and appreciate these historic events with those who experienced them.
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The Alice Austen House
The Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort or as Elizabeth Alice Austen House, is located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York City, New York. It was home of Alice Austen, a photographer, for most of her lifetime, and is now a museum.
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New York Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as “the Met”, is one of the world’s largest and most important art museums. It is located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The Met also maintains “The Cloisters”, which features medieval art.
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Van Cortlandt House Museum
The Van Cortlandt House Museum is the oldest building in The Bronx, New York City. The Van Cortlandt House was built by Frederick Van Cortlandt (1699-1749) in 1748, a mansion for the Van Cortlandt family built in Yonkers, of fieldstone, in Georgian style. He died before its completion and willed it to his son, James Van Cortlandt (1727-1787).
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Fraunces Tavern Museum
Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant and museum in New York City. It was built on the site of a former building where, on 4 December 1783, General George Washington bid farewell to his officers at war’s end, and which played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark on the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, USA. The museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year.
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Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA, harbors one of the most important collections of contemporary American art of the 20th century. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1931 with approximately 700 works of art from her own estate.
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Jewish Museum of New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA, harbors one of the most important collections of contemporary American art of the 20th century. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1931 with approximately 700 works of art from her own estate.
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Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum of Jewish Heritage was created as a living memorial to the Holocaust. The hexagonal shape and tiered roof of the building are symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. It opened September 15, 1997.
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Yeshiva University Museum
The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Along with the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Foundation, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, it is a member organization of the Center for Jewish History, a Smithsonian Institution affiliate located in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood.
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New York Transit Museum Gallery & Store
The Gallery Annex & Store in Grand Central Terminal offers changing exhibitions and educational programming reflecting its mission. You will also find a large selection of unique transportation related publications, gifts, memorabilia, posters, toys and much more.
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New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum is a museum which displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway and bus systems; it is located in the unused Court Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.
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Alternative Museum New York
The Alternative Museum furthers its 30-year mission by expanding its audience through the internet and by supporting the development of photography, web-based and digital art. Please note that this is an internet-based museum.
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Museum for African Art New York
The Museum for African Art is located in the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA). Founded in 1984, the museum is “dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture.” The museum is also well know for its public education programs that help raise awareness of African culture, and also operates a unique store selling authentic hand-made African crafts.
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National Museum of the American Indian New York
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is an institution of living cultures dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere; the museum was established in 1989 through an Act of Congress.
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Goethe Institute New York
The Goethe-Institut New York organizes and supports a wide range of international cultural exchange programs in close cooperation with partners and institutions in both the host countries and in Germany. These activities range from the arts and humanities through science and technology.
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Asia Society New York
The Asia Society is America’s leading institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.
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American Museum of the Moving Image New York
The Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) was a museum of the history of technology and media, including cinema and its forerunners, opened in 1988 and sited below Waterloo Bridge and forming part of the cultural complex on the South Bank of the River Thames, London, England.
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New York City Police Museum
The New York City Police Museum (NYCPM) celebrates the history and contributions of the 158-year history of the New York City Police Department. The museum is located in Lower Manhattan in New York City, near Wall Street and the South Street Seaport. The museum includes the “Wall of Heroes” exhibit, which commemorates NYPD officers killed in the line of duty, including those that died during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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New York City Fire Museum
The New York City Fire Museum is located in a renovated 1904 firehouse in the neighborhood of SoHo in New York City (USA). The museum contains art and artifacts celebrating the history of firefighting. Among the museum’s collection is an authentic New York fire “engine” from 1790, one of the oldest in North America. Examples of modern day firefighting equipment are also on permanent display at the museum.
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Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Founded in 1980, The Museum of Chinese in the Americas is located in Chinatown, New York City, New York, United States, and is “dedicated to reclaiming, preserving, and interpreting the history and culture of Chinese and their descendants in the Western Hemisphere.”
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The Bronx Museum of Arts
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is a fine art museum founded in 1971 in The Bronx, New York City, USA. It presents exhibitions featuring works by culturally diverse and under-recognized artists on themes of special interest to the Bronx community. The museum grew from an uncertain beginning and extensive turnover to a computer headquarters in the late 1980s and a state of the art exhibition space in 2006 that serves as an example to other neighborhood based institutions due in part to increased funding for the arts in the outer boroughs of New York City.
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Dahesh Museum of Arts
The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art. The collection originated with Lebanese writer, humanist, and philosopher Saleem Moussa Ashi (1909-1984), pen name Dr. Dahesh.
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New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world.
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Queens Museum of Art
The Queens Museum of Art is a major art museum in the Queens borough of New York City, USA.
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American Museum of the Moving Image
The American Museum of the Moving Image tells the story of the innovation and artistry that make the moving image the most powerful artistic and cultural influence of the twentieth century. The Museum houses the nation’s most important collection of motion picture and television artifacts. Exhibitions elegantly illustrate how the art and the craft of moving image making are inseparable.
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Brooklyn Children’s Museum New York
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is a general purpose museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Founded in 1899, it was the first museum in the world to cater specifically to children. The museum is currently undergoing renovation.
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Brooklyn Museum of Art New York
The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. Arnold L. Lehman is the museum’s Director.
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The South Street Seaport Museum
The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is usually considered a historical district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District.
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Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Ellis Island is a symbol of America’s immigrant heritage. From 1892 to 1954, this immigrant depot processed the greatest tide of incoming humanity in the nation’s history. Nearly twelve million landed here in their search of freedom of speech and religion, and for economic opportunity.
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Lefferts Historic House Museum
Flatbush Ave/ Empire Blvd
neighborhood: Flatbush
Sat: 12pm-5pm
Sun: 12pm-5pm
Saturday tour at 12 pm, Sunday tours at 12, 1 pm. Reservations required: (718) 789-2822 x11.
Maximum people: 10 per tour
building date: circa 1783
subway: Q, S to Prospect Park.
bus: B16, B41, B43, B48.
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
2 E 91st St/ Fifth Ave
neighborhood: Carnegie Hill
Sat:11 am, 3:30 pm
Sun:1:30 pm
Sat 11 am, 3:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm, tours, free admission.
Reservations required: chtours@si.edu (limit 2 reservations per person).
Maximum people: 18 per tour
building date: 1899-1902
subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th St.
bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M86, M96.
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