This is a list of museums in New York City, which is home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites, many of which are internationally known. Also included are non-profit art galleries, arts centers, and cultural centers with galleries.
Museums
Defunct museums
- 9/11 Tribute Museum
- AIGA National Design Center
- American Museum of Immigration, Liberty Island
- Art in General
- Barnum's American Museum, Manhattan
- Chelsea Art Museum, Manhattan, closed in 2011
- Children's Museum of the Arts
- Con Edison Energy Museum, Manhattan
- Choco-Story New York
- Dahesh Museum of Art, Exhibits art from its collection at other museums
- Discovery Times Square, closed in 2016
- Enrico Caruso Museum of America
- Fisher Landau Center
- Forbes Galleries, closed in 2014
- FusionArts Museum
- Guggenheim Soho, Manhattan
- Kurdish Library and Museum, Brooklyn
- Met Breuer, Manhattan, closed July 2020
- MICRO Museum, Brooklyn
- Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, closed in 2016
- Museum of Biblical Art, closed in 2015
- Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, closed in 2012, collections now part of the Society of Illustrators
- Museum of Living Art, 1927-1943 at NYU, modern art collection of Albert Eugene Gallatin
- Museum of Primitive Art, closed in 1976, collections now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of the American Piano, Manhattan,
- National Museum of Catholic Art and History, closed in 2010
- New York Jazz Museum in Manhattan
- New York City Police Museum
- New York Tattoo Museum in Staten Island
- Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, closed in 2015
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!, midtown Manhattan, 2007-2021
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, opened in SoHo in 2008, closed in 2010
- Sony Wonder Technology Lab, closed in 2016
- Sports Museum of America, Manhattan, opened in 2008, closed in 2009
- Store Front Museum, Queens
- UBS Art Gallery, Manhattan
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