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Cultural Institutions Group (CIG)

The Department of Cultural Affairs' mission of fostering dynamic public partnerships with private cultural organizations has its most dramatic expression in its relationship with the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG). The 34 members of this group are each located on City-owned property, and receive significant capital and operating support from the City to help meet basic security, maintenance, administration and energy costs. In return for this support, these institutions operate as publicly-owned facilities whose mandate is to provide cultural services accessible to all New Yorkers.

The CIG represents a broad spectrum of cultural endeavor, from art and natural history museums to historical societies, theaters, concert halls, performing arts centers, botanical gardens and zoos. Institutions range from the internationally renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music to community-based organizations such as the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Staten Island Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden.

The genesis of this public-private partnership began in 1869, with the creation of the American Museum of Natural History. Since that time, each Institution's relationship with the City has commenced in ways that reflected the City's cultural priorities of the time.
Learn more about the City's relationship with these Institutions

DCLA's relationship with members of the CIG is managed by the Institutions Unit, whose staff oversees the disbursement of City funds to the institutions. Staff members also represent the Commissioner at board meetings of the institutions, monitor institutions' operations and programs on a periodic basis, provide technical assistance in various areas of non-profit management, and serve as a liaison between the institutions and other City agencies.

Links to Cultural Institutions

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Children's Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Weeksville Heritage Center

Wildlife Conservation Society / New York Aquarium

Bronx

Bronx County Historical Society

Bronx Museum of the Arts

New York Botanical Garden

Wave Hill

Wildlife Conservation Society / Bronx Zoo

Manhattan

American Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Hall

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

El Museo del Barrio

Museum of the City of New York

Museum of Jewish Heritage

New York City Ballet

New York City Center

Public Theater

Studio Museum in Harlem

Queens

Flushing Town Hall

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Museum of the Moving Image

New York Hall of Science

MoMA PS 1

Queens Botanical Garden

Queens Museum

Queens Theatre

Staten Island

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

Staten Island Children's Museum

Staten Island Historical Society

Staten Island Museum

Staten Island Zoological Society