Museums in New York City

Lewis Latimer House

Historical house-turned-museum of a well-known African American inventor & electrical pioneer.

Staten Island Museum

General-interest museum with exhibits covering local history, art & the natural sciences.

Queens Museum

Visual arts on display along with The Panorama, a building-for-building model of New York City.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

Museum in the city's only remaining Dutch colonial farmhouse (built circa 1764) & its garden.

Weeksville Heritage Center

Museum exploring the history of a 19th-century African American community in Brooklyn.

National Lighthouse Museum

Intimate museum with exhibits about the history of lighthouses, with an emphasis on local examples.

New York Chinese Scholars Garden

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Specializing in contemporary art by New Yorkers of Latin, Asian & African-American descent.

Louis Armstrong Center

Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling

Bronx Children's Museum

Kingsland Homestead

Enduring house museum, circa 1785, with exhibits of Victorian life & historic artifacts of the area.

New York Hall of Science

This former 1964 World's Fair pavilion now houses more than 450 interactive science & tech exhibits.

Jewish Children's Museum

Featuring interactive exhibits & mini-golf, this museum explores Jewish history & heritage.

Staten Island Children's Museum

Interactive exhibits cover a range of subjects from fire fighting to insects; classes offered too.

Lefferts Historic House

This circa 1783 home with a working garden & period rooms depicts Brooklyn family life in the 1820s.

The Met Cloisters

Branch of the Metropolitan, showcasing medieval art in a French monastery overlooking the Hudson.

Louis Armstrong House Museum

Guided tours offered of the furnished house & gardens where the famed jazz trumpeter lived.

New York Yankees Museum

The Noble Maritime Collection

Museum displaying works by noted marine artist John A. Noble, plus his restored houseboat studio.