Neue Galerie New York, New York

Guggenheim Museum

Probably the most famous of the Guggenheim foundations (others found in Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and Las Vegas), which hold avant-garde modern art by artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian, the New York branch is housed in a unique and famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building rendered in a rounded, organic form and completed in 1959

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pay what you wish; includes same-day admission to the Cloisters Museum & Gardens in Upper Manhattan (suggested admission $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students, children under 12 free)

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

A branch of the Smithsonian Institution, the Cooper-Hewitt is devoted to historic and contemporary design, with changing exhibits

Central Park

A sprawling open space in Upper Manhattan, Central Park is divided into four quadrants

The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum tells the story of the long history of the Jewish community in London through artifacts, paintings and photographs

Whitney Museum of American Art

Founded in 1931, the Whitney Museum is known for displaying contemporary American art even more up-to-date than the Museum of Modern Art

American Museum of Natural History

Holding a remarkably large collection, each of the 5 floors of this massive building has expansive and well-designed exhibits devoted to astronomy, biology, geology, anthropology, climatology, and paleontology