The best museums and recommended
New York art galleries
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The Met Cloisters
Frick Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
Rubin Museum of Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Museum of Arts and Design
Nicholas Roerich Museum
Hall Des Lumières
Mercer Labs
Onassis Cultural Center New York
Poster House
American Folk Art Museum
The Studio Museum in Harlem
International Center of Photography Museum
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York Transit Museum Gallery & Store at Grand Central
Fotografiska New York
Asia Society and Museum
2120: An Art Experience at Portion Gallery
2Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Artechouse NYC
El Museo del Barrio
Ballon Museum - Let's Fly New York
Lever House
Discovering Columbus
Chelsea Art Museum
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Wave Hill
En Foco
Bronx River Art Center
Neue Galerie ( Art from Germany and Austria)
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Talwar Gallery
Art for Change
El Museo del Barrio
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
The Hispanic Society of America
Grey Art Gallery
The Merchant's House Museum
Robin Rice Gallery
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
Gallery SAKIKO New York
GALLERY JAC
South Street Seaport Museum
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
KS Art
Curt Marcus Gallery
Franklin 54 Gallery
AKIRA IKEDA GALLERY / NEW YORK
Fisher Landau Center For Art
Museum of the Moving Image
The Noguchi Museum
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Museum for African Art
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art MOCCA NYC
A La Vieille Russie
Eva & Morris Feld Gallery
Cindy Rucker Gallery
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
FitzGerald Fine Arts
Chesterfield Gallery
Perrotin New York
Pace Prints
HoloCenter
The Cultivist
Yeh Art Gallery at St. John's University
Open museums. Free access without payment
African Burial Ground Memorial Site
American Folk Art Museum
Bernard Museum of Judaica (Temple Emanu-El)
BRIC House
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Castle Clinton National Monument
Center for Architecture
Center for Brooklyn History
Climate Museum
Drawing Center
Federal Hall National Memorial
Fort Wadsworth
General Grant National Memorial
Hamilton Grange
The Harbor Defense Museum
High Line
Hispanic Society of America Museum & Library
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum (open Sun 11am to 4pm)
Lenfest Center for the Arts & Wallach Art Gallery
Little Island
MoMA PS1 (free for NYC residents; suggested admission otherwise, effectively "pay what you wish")
Museum of Chinese in America
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (suggested donation)
National Museum of the American Indian
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York Public Library – Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York Transit Museum Annex & Store, Grand Central Terminal
Nicholas Roerich Museum
Queens County Farm Museum (except during special events)
Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall
Salmagundi Club (public galleries)
SculptureCenter
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (Parsons School of Design)
The Skyscraper Museum
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden (grounds and botanical garden only)
Socrates Sculpture Park
South Street Seaport Museum
Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace