Best museums in New York

New York's landmark art museum, known as the Met. Its busy frontage is home to a well-known hot dog cart.

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A museum of impressionist, post-impressionist, early modern and contemporary art. Its Frank Lloyd Wright building, with art displayed around a central rotunda, is a work of art itself.

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A museum that is part of the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site.

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A major collection of modern and contemporary art. It also hosts film and design displays and performances.

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A museum in a former subway station that traces the history of New York's transit system. It displays subway trains from the earliest days to now.

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A newer museum on Liberty Island where the statue's original torch is displayed.

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A museum in the former immigration station (1892–1954) through which over 12 million immigrants arrived, showing what arriving in America was like. The island's immigrant hospital complex can be visited on a guided tour.

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The former mansion of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, one of the great barons of the Gilded Age.

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