This museum celebrates and interprets New York City and educates the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation. The collection includes paintings, drawings and photos, both of the city and its inhabitants, as well as clothing, decorative objects, toys, rare books, and manuscripts, among others. For those who love New York, it’s a must-see!

Pay as you wish. Suggested admission is $18.

As a monument to human dignity, courage, and sacrifice, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum honors the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993, recognizes the courage of those who survived, and salutes those who risked their lives to help others. The exhibits include pieces of concrete from the twin towers and even a fire engine that was used for rescue and care for victims. In addition, there is a collection of personal objects, videos and other materials. In several galleries, the museum shows what the world was like before and after the attacks.

TIP: Free Admission on Mondays, 3:30 - 5:30pm. Monday tickets will be available on the website each Monday beginning at 7 a.m. ET and are first come, first serve.

Don't forget to download the app to listen to the audio tour.

Queens Museum is the museum that houses Panorama. Conceived as a celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure by urban mastermind and World’s Fair President Robert Moses for the 1964 Fair, the Panorama was built by a team of more than 100 people working for the great architectural model makers Raymond Lester & Associates over the course of three years. In planning the model, Lester referred to aerial photographs, Sanborn fire insurance maps, and a range of other City material as the Panorama had to be accurate, with the initial contract demanding less than one percent margin of error between reality and the “world’s largest scale model.” Comprising an area of 9,335 square feet and built to a scale of 1:1200 where one inch equals 100 feet, the Panorama is a metropolis in miniature. Each of the city’s 895,000 buildings constructed prior to 1992 and every street, park and some 100 bridges are represented and assembled onto 273 individual sections comprising the 320 square miles of New York City.

The Tenement Museum celebrates the enduring stories that define and strengthen what it means to be American. This museum share stories of the immigrant and migrant experience through guided tours of their two tenement buildings on Orchard Street and the surrounding neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Visitors can take building tours of the recreated homes of our former residents between the 1860s and the 1980s as well as walking tours of the neighborhood they lived in. It is an amazing museum for those interested in learning more about NYC past through the immigrants stories.

The Brooklyn Museum is a Beaux-Arts style building on the north-east corner of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. It houses global artifacts from ancient cultures alongside art by famous painters from the 20th century.

Whether you’re after abstract art, or you simply want to admire pieces by some of the greatest artists to ever stand in front of a canvas, MoMA has something to offer for everyone. There’s a star-studded catalogue of modern masterpieces at MoMA. Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory, and Monet’s Water Lilies triptych are some of the biggest draws the museum has to offer. Other famous works of art include Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Frida Kahlo’s Fulang-Chang and I, Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, and The Lovers by René Magritte.

With nine floors, the museum is dedicated to contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and displaying American art, and its collection is arguably the best exploration of the art of that country in the twentieth century in the world. The place also has a rooftop with breathtaking views.

**Pay as you wish on Fridays, from 7pm to 10pm. **

It is one of the largest museums in the world, containing around 32 million natural specimens. You can even stand under the largest animal that ever lived, a 94-foot-long blue whale.

**** TIP:**** Residents of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut can pay as they wish at the American Museum of Natural History – but access to special exhibits is not included. There is an accessible entrance on 81st Street/Rose Center for Earth and Space - plus it is less busy and crowded.

Known as the Met – and with the most famous stairs on television (hey, Gossip Girl!) – the museum founded in 1870 is considered one of the biggest and best art museums on the planet. Paintings, sculptures and an authentic Egyptian temple are just some of the cool things that you will find around. During the summer, make sure to check the rooftop with beautiful views to Central Park and special art installations. Also, make sure to ask about the group tours - they are free

TIPS:

• New York State residents and NY, NJ, CT students can pay as they wish at the MET.

• If you wanna take a photo like mine, with the empty stairs, make sure to stop by after the museum closes.

A museum and independent research library located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints. Mr. Morgan's library, as it was known in his lifetime, was built between 1902 and 1906 adjacent to his New York residence at Madison Avenue and 36th Street. Designed by Charles McKim of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the library was intended as something more than a repository of rare materials. Completed three years before McKim's death, it is considered by many to be his masterpiece. In 1924, eleven years after Pierpont Morgan's death, his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867–1943), known as Jack, realized that the library had become too important to remain in private hands. In what constituted one of the most momentous cultural gifts in U.S. history, he fulfilled his father's dream of making the library and its treasures available to scholars and the public alike by transforming it into a public institution.

Free Friday Evenings, 5-7 pm. Reservations are required. Tickets are available one week in advance.