From melting pots to clay pots of the indigenous South American Peoples, New York City has a variety of cultural museums and history museums to educate and inspire. You can learn about everything from the hardships immigrants faced coming to the city to theories about the creation of the moon to Jewish life a century ago.
New York City | History and Culture
- American Museum of Natural History
- It's not everyday that you get to skulk among dinosaurs, stare a lion in the face, examine a 34-ton meteorite fragment named Cape York and trace your roots back to Cro-Magnon…unless you're visiting the American Museum of Natural History.
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- Discovery Times Square Exhibition Center
- From deep within the ocean to the deserts of Egypt, the Discovery Exposition center in Times Square explores historical events in the first large-scale exhibition center in New York City.
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- El Museo del Barrio
- In 1969, artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz saw a void in the landscape of New York City's art scene and sought to fill it by founding El Museo del Barrio.
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- Ellis Island Immigration Museum
- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…" This famous quote engraved on the Statue of Liberty has long welcomed immigrants to the U.S., but what else do we...
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- Isamu Noguchi Museum
- Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese-American sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman whose artistic career spanned six decades.
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- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- Envisioned by founder Ruth Abram and co-founder Anita Jacobson as a re-imagining of the museum concept, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum offers a look into the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants by recreating their actual living spaces.
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- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- As a tribute to the Jewish people and their struggle through the Holocaust, the Museum of Jewish Heritage opened in 1997. Located in Battery Park, the 112,000-sq. ft structure is shaped like a six-sided star to represent both the Star of David and the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
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- Museum of the City of New York
- What better way to learn about New York City than to go to a museum about it? Sure, you could spend several weeks walking around and visiting attractions, but you will be hard pressed to find a musical tribute to Yiddish theatre on Broadway.
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- National Museum of the American Indian
- Separated from Battery Park by State Street, the National Museum of the American Indian is at once beautiful and mysterious. Set inside an elegant Beaux-Arts building with marble columns and intricate detailing, it beckons you from afar, inviting you inside.
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- New York Historical Society
- Functioning as both a museum housing city artifacts and an extensive research library, the city's oldest museum, the New-York Historical Society, boasts a collection of over 4.5 million pieces of American history.
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