Tourists note: 10 must-visit museums in New York

There are a huge number of museums in New York. In order not to get lost in their variety, we suggest looking at the top 10. Writes more about them iveta.ua.

Here 10 best museums worth visiting for everyone, who comes to the Big Apple:

1. Museum public stories - New York Historical Society Museum

It is located west of 77th Street in Central West Park. The museum offers visitors a collection (Tiffany lamps, decorative objects, paintings and fittings) that reveals the history of the city of New York.

2. American Museum of Natural History

It was opened in 1869. Since then, he has been continuously changing and getting better, and his collection has been replenished. Here, among other things, there is the Rose Center planetarium, permanent exhibitions. For those who want to see something new, the museum hosts a series of exhibitions that change periodically.

3. Solomon Guggenheim Museum - Guggenheim Museum

It was designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The building is known for its unusual construction, which is shaped like a spiral. A unique layout awaits you inside. It houses both a permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. It's worth coming here to see Art Nouveau paintings, sculptures and films.

4. Metropolitan Museum of Art

It houses about two million works of art from all over the world from different eras. “You can easily spend years exploring the Metropolitan Museum's vast collections, but if you only have one evening to visit, you will certainly be impressed by the range of art in the exhibition,” the author writes.

5. Museum of Modern Art New York - Museum of Modern Art

It was founded in 1929 as the first museum entirely dedicated to contemporary art. Today, it houses an impressive collection of contemporary artistic achievements.

6. Lower East Side Slum Museum New York - Lower East Side Tenement Museum

You can visit it only with a guide, the newspaper writes. A walk through the Slum Museum takes you back in time to the immigrant past of the Lower East Side.

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7. American Museum of the Moving Image - American Museum of the Moving Image

This place is definitely worth a visit for film lovers. The museum's collection is dedicated to films, television and digital media, their impact on culture and society. The museum is located in Astoria, Queens. There are subway access roads and a shortcut from Manhattan.

8. Museum island Ellis New York - Ellis Island Immigration Museum

He has his own unusual story. Ellis Island is located in the New York City Harbor. About 1892 million immigrants arrived here from 1954 to 12 by steamers, who underwent a grueling process of legalization and a thorough medical examination. When the island was rebuilt in 1990, it was converted into a museum. Now the exhibits in it keep the history of what ordeals these people had to go through.

9. Museum of American Art - Whitney New York - Whitney Museum of American Art

This museum differs from others in an impressive large collection of American art of the twentieth century. About 12 thousand paintings, sculptures, images, drawings and photographs are stored here.

10. National Museum of Design Cooper Hewitt - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

It is the only museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to historical and contemporary design, as well as the world's largest collections of decorative and applied arts. A unique collection of 250 thousand units and represents the history of world design - from the VI century BC. e. Until now. The rarest graphic sketches, collections of ceramics, glass and porcelain, furniture and textiles, household items, products of the world's largest designer brands, rarities of science and technology - all this tells about the aesthetic development of civilization over more than twenty-six centuries of its history.