Category
Art Museum
17 places
- British MuseumA collection of world antiquities around a glass-roofed court, free to enter since it opened to the public.History Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtAn encyclopedic collection on Central Park's edge, open since 1870 — Egyptian temples, European painting and American rooms under one roof.Art Museum
- Museum of Modern ArtFounded in 1929 to collect what museums then refused: modern painting and sculpture, and also design, film and photography.Art Museum
- National GalleryEuropean painting from the 1200s to 1900 on Trafalgar Square, from Van Eyck and Piero to Turner and Van Gogh.Art Museum
- Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumFrank Lloyd Wright's spiral ramp on Fifth Avenue, where visitors descend past the art instead of walking room to room.UNESCOArt Museum
- Tate ModernModern and contemporary art in a former power station, with the Turbine Hall as its entrance and commission space.Art Museum
- Victoria and Albert MuseumDesign and decorative arts across cultures and centuries, from cast courts of copied monuments to fashion and ceramics.Art Museum
- Whitney Museum of American ArtAmerican art only, in a collection begun in 1931 by a sculptor whose own gift the Metropolitan had declined.Art Museum
- Chora ChurchByzantium's finest surviving mosaics and frescoes, in a modest church far from the tourist spine.UNESCOChurch
- The Frick CollectionA steel magnate's Fifth Avenue house kept as a home: Vermeer, Bellini and Holbein hang in rooms with fireplaces.Art Museum
- The Met CloistersMedieval European cloisters taken apart in France, shipped across the Atlantic and rebuilt above the Hudson as one museum.Art Museum
- Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn's own encyclopedic museum, open since 1897 and strongest in Egyptian art and American painting.Art Museum
- Istanbul ModernTürkiye's first modern art museum, since 2023 in a Renzo Piano building on the Karaköy waterfront.Art Museum
- Museum of Turkish and Islamic ArtsCarpets, calligraphy and Seljuk woodwork in İbrahim Pasha's 16th-century palace on the Hippodrome.Art Museum
- Pera MuseumOrientalist painting and Anatolian weights and measures in a restored 1893 hotel.Art Museum
- Sakıp Sabancı MuseumCalligraphy and Ottoman painting in a Bosphorus villa, with a garden of sculpture above the water.Art Museum
- Museum of InnocenceOrhan Pamuk's novel built as a physical collection — 4,213 cigarette butts among the vitrines.Art Museum