Best Museums In New York City

New York museums are not worth the price. For better museums go to a city 90 miles south of it.

Geo_Lee_2001 said:

New York museums are not worth the price. For better museums go to a city 90 miles south of it.

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Every single post this guy has made on SSC is exactly the same. Desperate philly boosting while no one listens.

Keep on riding dat insecurity train.

Geo_Lee_2001 said:

New York museums are not worth the price. For better museums go to a city 90 miles south of it.

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$22.75 entry fee for the Guggenheim museum.
I wouldnt call that outrageously expensive.

$22,26 entry fee for the Louvre in Paris, but I guess there is more to see here, the Mona Lisa for instance.

How many museums does NYC have?

NicoBolso said:

How many museums does NYC have?

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About 70-80 Museums. For a city with a pop. of 9 million it does not have a very high amount of museums, but my pick would be:

Ellis Island Immigration Museum
New York Transit Museum
New York City Police Museum
Madame Tussaud's New York Wax Museum (tourist trap???)
Merchant's House Museum

The Met is available in Google Street View for us virtual tourists who can't afford an air ticket.

You left the Guggenheim out of your list?

NicoBolso said:

You left the Guggenheim out of your list?

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Well, I'm not very much in to contemporary art. I would like to see some old oil paintings by Rembrandt like the nightwatch and da Vincis Mona Lisa, the last supper. Those could be found in Amsterdam, Paris and Milan.



In New York two of the worlds most famous paintings could be seen. Those are van Goghs The Starry Night at the Museum of Modern Art and Monet's Water Lillies at the Met.

Philadelphia's Arts Museum is better than the Met. Also New York doesn't have anything like Philly's Please Touch Museum or Franklin Institute.

I guess it depends on what you're into. I've always found MOMA and the Haydn Planetarium to be pretty fascinating.

Mmuseumm: New York's smallest museum fits in a freight elevator (Season 3 exhibit)

There are lots of Museums in New york city. You can choose best one from the list.
1. American Museum of Natural History
2. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
3. Ellis Island Immigration Museum
4. Guggenheim Museum
5. Lower East Side Tenement Museum

The Met and the Natural Museum of Natural History gotta be in my top 5, even counting those of France and the UK in the list:

My opinion about almost all the NYC museums I have ever been:

- pretty poor collections of european painting, especially medieval and impressionism.
- EXTREMELY expensive if you do not use option "pay what you want". Most of non-regular exhibitions are very overpriced!
- very poor taste in supporting decorations
- all the people consume foods and drinks, sitting on the floor, I don't think it is appropriate behaviour in a place like museum...

Sorry...

Which museums have you been to? If you went to the Met, the Frick, etc and thought they had "pretty poor collections of european painting" I don't know what constitutes a good collection. I have never observed this "poor taste in supporting decorations" nor have I ever seen people eating on the floor!

Are you sure you went to New York?

How can you forget the Skyscraper Museum?

http://www.skyscraper.org/home.htm

Simfan34 said:

Which museums have you been to? If you went to the Met, the Frick, etc and thought they had "pretty poor collections of european painting" I don't know what constitutes a good collection. I have never observed this "poor taste in supporting decorations" nor have I ever seen people eating on the floor!

Are you sure you went to New York?

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YES, I'm sure I went to New York.

Good collections:

- Louvre Museum, Paris
- Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, Germany
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

All this museums have a much more balanced and interesting collections than even the Metropolitan museum has. Maybe except the collections of the modern art but it is toooo specific ( I am not sure that the modern art is an art at all).

About eating and drinking: american museum of natural history - lots of people with kids eating and drinking... there are lots of places to buy food inside the museum. I don't think it is good for a such "cultural" place.