Museums and galleries of New York City.

Introduction : why museums matter -- New York Renaissance -- The Ashcan and the Armory -- Of men and machines -- The New York School & beyond -- New York City architecture -- Maps -- Manhattan South -- Manhattan North -- Outer boroughs -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- American Museum of Natural History -- The major collections -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- American Museum of Natural History -- Brooklyn Museum of Art -- The Cloisters -- The Frick Collection -- Museum of Modern Art -- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- Whitney Museum of American Art -- Fine art -- Dahesh Museum of Art -- Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum -- National Academy of Design -- Queens Museum of Art -- Folk art -- American Folk Art Museum -- American Craft Museum -- World art & culture -- Americas Society -- Asia Society and Museum -- El Museo del Barrio - Hispanic Society of America -- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art -- Japan Society -- Kurdish Library and Museum -- Museum for African Art -- Neue Galerie New York -- Studio Museum in Harlem -- Ukrainian Museum -- contemporary art -- Artists Space -- Bronx Museum of the Arts -- Dia Center for the Arts -- New Museum of Contemporary Art -- P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center -- Wave Hill -- Whitney Museum at Philip Morris -- Photography, film & broadcasting -- American Museum of the Moving Image -- International Center of Photography -- Museum of Television and Radio -- History and society -- Ellis Island Immigration Museum -- Fraunces Tavern Museum -- George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian -- Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum -- Jewish Museum -- Lower East Side Tenement Museum -- Museum of American Financial History -- Museum of chinese in the Americas -- Museum of Jewish Heritage -- South Street Seaport Museum -- Statue of Liberty -- Historic houses -- Alice Austen House -- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum -- Edgar Allan Poe Cottage -- Merchant's House Museum -- Morris-Jumel Mansion -- Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden -- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace -- Science and nature -- Brooklyn Botanic Garden -- New York Botanical Garden -- New York Hall of Science -- Books, prints and special collections -- American Numismatic Society -- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum -- Forbes Magazine Galleries -- New York Public Library -- Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall -- Children's museums -- Brooklyn Children's Museum -- Children's Museum of Manhattan -- Children's Museum of the Arts -- Sony Wonder Technology Lab -- About New York City -- Municipal Archives of the City of New York -- Museum of the City of New York -- New-York Historical Society -- New York City Fire Museum -- New York City Police Museum -- Farther afield -- Barnum Museum -- Bruce Museum -- Florence Griswold Museum -- Liberty Science Center -- Montclair Art Museum -- Mystic Seaport -- Newark Museum -- Yale University Museums -- The gallery scene -- Essential information.