New York City Museums Near Our NY Hotel

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. And the best part is this is all within walking distance of our NY hotel! 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.