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Museum of
Modern Art
Picasso’s She-Goat (1950)
is among the impressive Morningside
collection on display in the Heights and
renovated Museum of Harlem
Modern Art (MoMA).
Museum of the
City of New York
Costumes, works of art, and
household objects (such as this
1725 silver dish) create an intricate
and detailed picture of New York’s past.
Upper West
Side

American Museum
Hudson R iver Central have fascinated generations of visitors here.
of Natural History
Park
Dinosaurs, meteorites, and much more

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian
Design Museum
Midtown A wealth of decorative arts is displayed in
West and industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s former
the Theater Upper Upper East Side mansion.
District East Side

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Upper Painting and sculpture by almost all major
Midtown avant-garde artists of the late 19th and
20th centuries fill Frank Lloyd Wright’s
stunningly renovated building.
Lower
Midtown

Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Of the millions of works in
East R iver 12th-dynasty Egyptian
its collection, this
faïence hippo is the
museum’s own mascot.

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Brooklyn The Frick Collection
The collection of 19th-century railroad magnate
Henry Clay Frick is displayed in his former
home. Masterpieces include St. Francis in the
Desert (about 1476–8) by Giovanni Bellini.

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