# Musei e istituzioni culturali di New York

New York ospita centinaia di musei e istituzioni culturali e siti storici, molti dei quali sono conosciuti a livello internazionale. Questa lista contiene le più famose o stimate organizzazioni, distinti per campi d'interesse.

## Musei
### Arte

* American Museum the Moving Image
* American Folk Art Museum
* Albo
* Bronx Museum of the Arts
* The Dahesh Museum
* The Drawing Center
* Fisher Landau Center
* Forbes Galleries
* Frick Collection
* International Center of Photography
* International Print Center New York
* Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
* Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
* Metropolitan Museum of Art – chiamato "The Met"
** The Cloisters – collezione di arte medievale
* Municipal Art Society (include il Urban Center Gallery)
* Museum for African Art
* Museum of Biblical Art
* Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – chiamato "MoCCA"
* Museum of Modern Art – chiamato MoMA
* Neue Galerie
* New Museum of Contemporary Art
* Noguchi Museum (aka The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum)
* The Paley Center for Media
* P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
* Queens Museum of Art
* Rubin Museum of Art
* SculptureCenter
* Socrates Sculpture Park
* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
* Studio Museum in Harlem
* Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
* Whitney Museum of American Art

### Cultura o Storia

* American Numismatic Society Museum
* Brooklyn Historical Society
* Brooklyn Museum
* Center for Jewish History (New York)
* Coney Island USA
* Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
* Hispanic Society of America
* Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
* Jewish Museum (New York)
* Merchant's House Museum
* El Museo del Barrio
* Museum of American Finance
* Museum of the City of New York
* Museum of Chinese in the Americas
* Museum of Jewish Heritage
* Museum of Sex
* National Museum of the American Indian (New York branch)
* National Museum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History
* National Sports Museum
* New York City Fire Museum
* New York City Police Museum
* New-York Historical Society
* New York Transit Museum
* Queens County Farm Museum
* Skyscraper Museum
* Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
* Yeshiva University Museum
* The National Arts Club
* National September 11 Memorial & Museum

### Design

* Center for Architecture
* Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
* Cooper Union's Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, su cooper.edu. URL consultato l'11 settembre 2007 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 settembre 2007).
* Fashion Institute of Technology
* National Academy of Design
* Parsons The New School for Design

### Storia naturale

* American Museum of Natural History
** Hayden Planetarium (the Rose Center for Earth and Space)
* Bronx Zoo
* Brooklyn Botanic Garden
* New York Aquarium
* New York Botanical Garden
* New York Hall of Science
* Queens Botanical Garden
* Staten Island Zoo
* Wave Hill

### Musei per bambini

* Brooklyn Children's Museum
* Children's Museum of the Arts
* Children's Museum of Manhattan
* Jewish Children's Museum
* Staten Island Children's Museum

## Spettacoli
### Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

* Avery Fisher Hall
* Jazz at Lincoln Center
* Metropolitan Opera
* New York State Theater, che ospita:
** New York City Ballet
** New York City Opera

### Musica

* 92nd Street Y
* Brooklyn Academy of Music
* Manhattan School of Music
* The Juilliard School
* Boys Choir of Harlem
* Mannes College of Music
* The New York Collegium
* City Parks Foundation
* New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

### Teatri

* 92nd Street Y
* Apollo Theater
* Biltmore Theatre
* Bowery Ballroom
* Carnegie Hall
* Hammerstein Ballroom
* La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
* New York City Center
* The Public Theater
* Radio City Music Hall
* Snug Harbor Cultural Center
* The Town Hall
* Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

## Siti storicamente significativi

* African Burial Ground National Monument
* Bartow-Pell Mansion
* Ellis Island
* Federal Hall
* Fort Schuyler
* Governors Island
* Gracie Mansion
* General Grant National Memorial
* Historic Richmond Town
* Irish Hunger Memorial
* Lower East Side Tenement Museum
* Snug Harbor Cultural Center
* Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
* Weeksville Heritage Center

### World Trade Center

* International Freedom Center
* World Trade Center Memorial
* Tribute in Light

## Biblioteche

* Morgan Library & Museum
* New York Public Library
* New York Academy of Medicine Library
* New York Society Library
* Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
* Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
* Frick Art Reference Library
* Biblioteca Instituto Cervantes
* Shevchenko Scientific Society
* United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library
* Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
* Cloisters Library and Archives
* Brooklyn Public Library
* Queens Public Library