The Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) was established in 1923 with an aim to “collect, preserve, and present original materials related to the history of New York City.” The museum receives individual contributions from corporations and foundations in addition to the public funds granted by the New York State Council on the [...]

Louis Armstrong House Museum

On a visit to the house of one of the most famous musicians the world has ever known, if you expect it to be like a traditional museum…stop right there and turn back. There are no biographical wall plaques or mementos placed strategically all over the house; what you do get to see is something [...]

The New York City Fire Museum

The New York City Fire Museum is one of the most popular museums in this city. It is the perfect place to relive the drama and excitement of the years gone by and see how it is our brave firemen protected Manhattan with, what might seem to us, strange yet ingenious looking contraptions. Appropriately so, [...]

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield June 24–October 17, 2010 at the Whitney

Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his own lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated and noticeable absent from today’s art scene. He worked almost exclusively in watercolor, and although he lived next door to Niagara Falls,he to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet

Museum of Natural History launches a Navigation App for IPhone

The Museum of Natural history has just launched it’s very own navigation App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that might make getting lost in the Museum a thing of the past. The free Explorer App guides visitors through the Upper West Side Museum’s expansive halls using a kind of “indoor GPS” or WiFi signals that show users’ exactly where they are.

Queens Museum of Art

The Queens Museum of Art (QMA) is located in the New York City Building, which was built for the 1939 World’s Fair. It is the only remaining structure from that fair. Between 1946 and 1950 it also served as the headquarters for the United Nations. In 1964, the building saw yet another opportunity to serve [...]

MOMA : the Darker Side of Henri Matisse

See Henri Matisse like you have never seen him before . The new exposition at the MOMA focuses on what some have called the war years of 1913-1917. It was a pivotal period in Matisse’s artistic development when he seemed to abandoned his interest in decorative patterning and brilliant color for darker,grim and more abstract [...]

The Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. When you think of the premier institutions of art, Brooklyn Museum features among the first few names. Its permanent collection that showcases Classical, Egyptian, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art, arts of Africa, the Pacific, [...]

Pierpont Morgan Library

If you are as big a fan of the written word as we are, you are going to be just as thrilled with a visit to the Pierpont Morgan Library. And, if you are the kind that is not moved by strokes of ink on paper, you should come here simply to appreciate the beauty [...]

Dahesh Museum

The Dahesh Museum might be a tiny museum as compared to some of the mammoth ones you can find in New York City, but it is the only museum in the US that collects and exhibits 19th and early 20th-century European academic art, a style of sculpture and painting that was produced under the influence [...]