Museums in New York City

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The studio and home of one of America’s preeminent mid-century sculptors.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.