List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

Museums

• See List of museums in New York City for a complete sortable list in alphabetical order.
• See List of museums in New York for museums in the rest of New York state.

  Encyclopedic

Region and tradition

African and African American

Asian and Asian American

Indigenous and African Caribbean in Latin America

European Jewish and Jewish American

Western by era

Traditional European art

Modern art

Other Western and Native American

Artistic medium

Books, drawings, illustrations, prints

Photography, film, new media

Sculpture

Design, decorative arts, architecture

Entertainment

Performing arts

Amusements

Science

History

American history, local history, historic monuments

Military, police, fire

Transportation and maritime

Financial

Historic houses

Children's

Contemporary spaces

Contemporary museums

Contemporary galleries

Neighborhood art centers

Miscellaneous

Defunct museums

• American Museum of Immigration, Liberty Island
• Barnum's American Museum, Manhattan
• Chelsea Art Museum, Manhattan, closed in 2011
• Con Edison Energy Museum, Manhattan
• Discovery Times Square Exposition - closed in 2016
• Fischer Landau Center, Long Island City - closed in 2017
• Forbes Galleries, closed in 2014
• Guggenheim Soho, Manhattan
• Kurdish Library and Museum, Brooklyn, collections now owned by Binghamton University
• Micro Museum, Brooklyn, closed exhibit space
• Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, closed in 2016
• Museum of the American Piano, Manhattan,
• Museum of Biblical Art, closed in 2015
• Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, closed in 2012, collections now part of the Society of Illustrators
• Museum of Primitive Art, closed in 1976, collections now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• National Museum of Catholic Art and History, closed in 2010
• New York Jazz Museum, Manhattan
• New York Tattoo Museum
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, opened in Soho in 2008, closed in 2010
• Sony Wonder Technology Lab, closed in 2016
• Sports Museum of America, Manhattan, opened in 2008, closed in 2009
• UBS Art Gallery, Manhattan

  Proposed museums

• Climate Museum
• Poster House
• Museum of the Street

  Zoos and gardens

• Bronx Zoo
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Central Park Zoo
• Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
• New York Aquarium
• New York Botanical Garden
• Prospect Park Zoo
• Queens Botanical Garden
• Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden
• Queens Zoo
• Queens County Farm Museum
• Staten Island Botanical Garden
• *The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden
• Staten Island Zoo
• Wave Hill

  Performing arts

Lincoln Center

• Alice Tully Hall
• David Geffen Hall, formerly known as Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic
• David H. Koch Theater, formerly known as the New York State Theater, home to New York City Ballet
• Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Metropolitan Opera
• Vivian Beaumont Theater

  Music

• 92nd Street Y
• Bargemusic
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra
• Carnegie Hall
• City Parks Foundation
• The Juilliard School
• Kaufman Music Center
• Manhattan School of Music
• Mannes College of Music
• New York City Opera
• The New York Pops
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Symphony Space

  Theaters

• 92nd Street Y
• Apollo Theater
• Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - formerly the Biltmore Theatre
• Bowery Ballroom
• Carnegie Hall
• Hammerstein Ballroom
• La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
• New York City Center
• The Public Theater
• Radio City Music Hall
• Roundabout Theatre Company
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• The Town Hall
• Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

  Historically significant sites

Historic House Trust

• Alice Austen House Museum
• Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
• The Conference House
• Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
• Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
• Gracie Mansion
• Hendrick I. Lott House
• Historic Richmond Town
• King Manor Museum
• Kingsland Homestead, with "weeping beech tree"
• Lefferts Historic House
• Lewis H. Latimer House
• The Little Red Lighthouse
• Merchant's House Museum
• Morris-Jumel Mansion
• The Old Stone House
• Queens County Farm Museum
• Seguine Mansion
• Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre
• Valentine-Varian House
• Van Cortlandt House Museum
• The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum

  National Parks of New York Harbor

• African Burial Ground National Monument
• Castle Clinton National Monument
• Federal Hall National Memorial
• Fort Wadsworth
• General Grant National Memorial
• Governors Island/Governors Island National Monument
• Hamilton Grange National Memorial
• Statue of Liberty National Monument
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

  World Trade Center site

• 9/11 Tribute Museum
• International Freedom Center
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Tribute in Light

  Other historic sites

• Brooklyn Navy Yard, building 92
• Fort Schuyler
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Irish Hunger Memorial
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• Trinity Churchyard
• Weeksville Heritage Center

  Libraries

• Biblioteca Instituto Cervantes
• Brooklyn Public Library
• *Central Library
• *List of Brooklyn Public Library branches
• Butler Library at Columbia University
• Cloisters Library and Archives
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Dag Hammarskjöld Library
• Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University
• Frick Art Reference Library
• The Morgan Library & Museum
• New York Public Library
• *Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
• *Bronx Library Center
• *New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• *New York Public Library Main Branch
• *Science, Industry and Business Library
• *Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• *List of New York Public Library branches
• New York Academy of Medicine Library
• New York Society Library
• Queens Public Library
• *List of Queens Public Library branches
• Shevchenko Scientific Society