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Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (10 blocks away)
58 Park Avenue
Between 37th and 38th St
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 879-9779
Scandinavia House opened in 2000, its main objective being the cultural
exchange between the U.S. and five Nordic countries: Denmark,Finland ,
Iceland , Norway
, and Sweden. A destination for New Yorkers and visitors the
Scandinavia House presents a variety of exhibitions and cultural
programs.
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum (8 blocks North)
234 West 42nd Street | Times Square
New York City, New York 10036, United States
Tel: 800-246-8872
Get close and personal with your favorite stars. With over 100 wax
people to pose with, you'll think you're in Hollywood or in a story
book.
Museum of Modern Art (20 blocks North)
11 West 53rd St.
Tel: 212-708-9480
Home to the largest collection of artwork created between 1880 and the
present. The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between
the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an
environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary
art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to
young children.
American Folk Art Museum (20 blocks North)
45 West 53rd Street
212-265-1040
4,000 works of art are displayed in this 8-story museum.
Japan Society (20 Blocks North East)
333 E. 47th St. | Btw. First and Second Aves.
212/832-1155
American institution promotes understanding and relations between the
United States and Japan through exhibits of traditional and
contemporary Japanese art, films, performing arts, topical lectures and
cultural exchange programs.
New Museum of Contemporary Art (30 Blocks South)
583 Broadway
212-219-1222
Founded in 1977, the New Museum of Contemporary Art is the premier
contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most important
internationally. Focusing on experimental ideas and exhibits portraying
the development of emerging artists, this unique museum's collection
includes unusual, abstract art from around the world.
The Alternative Museum (30 blocks South)
594 Broadway #402
212-966-4444
The museum presents a unique art museum with online digital exhibitions
and live webcast events featuring contemporary art with social and
humanitarian content.
Children's Museum of the Arts (35 blocks South)
182 Lafayette St. | Btw. Broome and Grand Sts.
212/941-9198 or 212/274-0986
Lots of interactive workshops for kids, from puppet-making to storytelling by the "Brothers Grimm."
Frick Collection (40 blocks away)
1 E. 70th St. | Fifth Ave.
212-288-0700
Henry Frick once resided in this 18th-century French-style mansion; now
it is the home of his impressive art collection, which includes Titian,
Vermeer, Rembrandt, El Greco, Goya, Whistler and more.
Whitney Museum of American Art (40 blocks away)
945 Madison Ave.
1 (800) WHITNEY
Unique museum designed as a 97-foot inverted pyramid with 30,000 square
feet of exhibition space, features modern twentieth and twenty-first
centuries' sculptures, paintings, photographs, drawing, films and
videotapes.
American Museum of Natural History (40 blocks away)
Central Park West bet 77th and 81st streets
Open Daily 10 AM- 5:45 PM
Rose Center open Fridays to 8:45 pm To purchase
tickets, visit the Concierge/Tour Desk or
call 212-971-0101 Ext. 7103
The museum now hosts its new Rose Center for Earth and Space dedicated
to showing and educating visitors about the universe. The museum's
permanent exhibitions include floors dedicated towards mammals,
fossils, cultural halls, biodiversity, birds and much more.
Interactive, modernized exhibits and an IMAX theater bring this
museum's study of the past into the 21st century.
Asia Society and Museum (40 blocks away)
725 Park Ave.
212-288-6400
This foundation established by John D. Rockefeller exhibits Asian
artifacts and antiques, largely culled from Rockefeller's collection,
as well as contemporary art shows ranging from dance to photography.
The Society is America's leading institution dedicated to fostering
understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the
peoples of Asia and the Pacific.
Children's Museum of Manhattan (45 blocks away)
212 W. 83d St.
Tel: 212-721-1223, New York City
Five floors bustling with unique exhibits and daily programs for family
fun together. The museum is very kid-friendly and offers many
interactive activities.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, (50 blocks North)
Fifth Ave. and 82nd Street
212-879-5500
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was built in 1870, with the mission to
collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and
advance knowledge of works of art that collectively represent the
broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of quality.
The Met's collection contains more than two million works of art
spanning all eras and locales of human civilization.
National Museum of the American Indian (50 blocks South)
1 Bowling Green
212-514-3700
The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of the
cultures and history of the native peoples of the Americas through an
extensive collection including archaeological objects from the Arctic
Circle to Tierra del Fuego, film and video archives, and contemporary
prints and negatives.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (60 blocks North)
1071 Fifth Ave. at 89th St.
212-423-3500
The circular Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building is as much of a draw
as the museum's collection of modern art. The museum has changing
exhibitions of modern artists like Keith Haring, Vasily Kandinsky, and
many more.
The Jewish Museum (60 blocks North)
1109 Fifth Avenue
212-423-3200
Considered the largest Jewish museum outside of Israel, visitors travel
through 4,000 years of Jewish art, history and culture through its
"Culture and Community: The Jewish Journey" permanent exhibition. In
2004, The Jewish Museum celebrated its Centennial year, marking the
gift, in 1904, of 26 Jewish ceremonial art objects to The Jewish
Theological Seminary by Judge Mayer Sulzberger. Over the past 100
years, the museum has assumed its role as a major cultural institution
for New York City and the world.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (60 blocks away)
2 E 91st Street
212-849-8400
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, housed in the Carnegie
mansion is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to
historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design
shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more
desirable, functional, and accessible.
Nicholas Roerich Museum (70 blocks North)
319 W. 107th St.
212-864-7752
The major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a
Russian-born artist who increased appreciation of the value of the
cultural heritage of all nations.
Cloisters (150 blocks North)
Fort Tryon Park | Margaret Corbin Drive
212-923-3700
The "Cloisters" is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the
art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres
overlooking the Hudson River in Northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon
Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French
cloisters-quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or
arcade-and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the
cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted
according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and
poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such
as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals.
Museum of African Art (4.2 mi)
36-01 43rd Avenue at 36th Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
718-784-7700
The Museum for African Art has been relocated to Long Island City, Queens.
It present major exhibitions in the Main Gallery, and smaller changing
exhibitions in the Focus Gallery. In addition, it
maintain a lively calendar of events for visitors of all ages and a Museum Store that showcases traditional African
art and crafts in a stylish setting.
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