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5 Best Museums to Visit in NYC

New York City is a great place to visit if you are a museum enthusiast. The city is filled with museums that cater to a wide range of interests, with museums dedicated to archaeology, history, art and the sciences. Below a list of 5 museums in particular, which we recommend:

Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, fondly called “The Met” by locals, is the result of collaborative venture between many respected international museums. The Met has a large collection of different artifacts ranging from medieval art pieces to works of art from different time periods.

American Museum of Natural History - New York City’s Museum of Natural History is one of the best museums of Guggenheim museumits kind. It is home to more than 35 million artifacts and many different exhibits. The museum also offers guided tours for visitors of all ages and there are often in excess around 40 exhibits being hosted in the museum at any one time. Topics can include anything from dinosaurs to astronomy.

Museum of the City of New York - Established in 1923, the Museum of the City of New York is the best place to go if you want to learn about New York City. Many of the museum’s exhibits document the city’s long history, from pre-Colombian New York up until the present time.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum - Located in New York’s Orchard Street, this museum is dedicated to the time period when thousands of immigrants flocked to New York from all over the world. The museum offers guided tours of its many exhibits featuring photographs and items from 19th century New York.

Solomon R. Guggenheim - The renowned architect Frank Lloyd Webber designed this museum in 1959. The Guggenheim museum is home to many of the famous works by masters like Klee, Picasso and Kandinsky.


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