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Best of the Web: Children's Resources » New York, New York » Museums
- Alice Austen House Museum
- American Folk Art Museum
- American Merchant Marine Museum
- American Museum of the Moving Image
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
- Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Bronx River Art Center
- Brooklyn Children's Museum
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Children's Museum
The Children's Museum offers 5 floors of interactive exhibits for learning and family fun. Consult this website to find out about the exhibits, classes and programs scheduled at the museum.
- Children's Museum of the Arts
- Children's Museum of the Native American
- Cloisters
- Coney Island Museum
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El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's collections and programs respond to substantial growth in the Mexican, Central and South American, and Caribbean communities, both in New York and nationally.
- Ellis Island
- Fraunces Tavern Museum
- Frick Collection
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Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island
The museum is a national landmark that collects, preserves and exhibits historical objects relating to the lives of General Giuseppe Garibaldi and Antonio Meucci.
- Guggenheim Museum
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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Provides detailed information about the former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid turned museum, its exhibits, programs and upcoming events.
- Jewish Museum
- Liberty Science Center
- Little Red Lighthouse
- Louis Armstrong House and Archives
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Morris-Jumel Mansion
- Museum for African Art
- Museum of Chinese in America
- Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
- Museum of Modern Art
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Museum of Television & Radio
The Museum of Television & Radio is a nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley in 1975 to collect and preserve television and radio programs and to make these programs available to the public.
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Museum of the City of New York
The museum covers all five boroughs of NYC. Use the "Search" box to find Staten Island information.
- New Jersey Children's Museum
- New York City Fire Museum
- New York City Police Museum
- New York Hall of Science
- New York Transit Museum
- Scandinavia House
- Skyscraper Museum
- Sonywonder Technology Lab
- Staten Island Children's Museum
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Staten Island Museum
New York City's only general interest museum, explores the arts, natural science, and local history through permanent and changing exhibitions. Also known as the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences (SIIAS).
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Staten Island: Historic Richmond Town
Historic Richmond Town is New York Citys living history village and museum complex. Visitors can explore the diversity of the American experience, especially that of Staten Island and its neighboring communities, from the colonial period to the present.
- Studio Museum In Harlem
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Wave Hill
Provides visitor information and a description of the gardens.

