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powered by FreeFind	New York New York Alternative Museum 594 Broadway New York NY 10012 Phone 212 966-4444 Web Site http://www.alternativemuseum.org/ Description online only presentation of cutting edge works and ideas Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Nature of Group or Site Online Museum NY New York American Folk Art Museum 45 West 53rd St New York NY 10019 Phone 212 265-1040 Web Site http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ E-mail mailto:info@folkartmuseum.org Description changing exhibits of folk artists, 4000 item permanent collection including portraits & weathervanes Type of Resource Museum Field of Study/Science Facility Folk Life Collection A-F Folk Art Collection N-Z Quilts New or Updated: 10/9/2005 NY New York American Indian Community House Gallery & Museum 708 Broadway New York NY 10003 Phone 212 598-0100 Web http://www.aich.org/aboutgallery.html Alt Web www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/7211/ Description contemporary Native American artists, 4-5 shows a year, part of AICH, supporting 27000 Native Americans in New York Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Group Identity Native American New or Updated 2/1/2006 NY New York American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York NY 10024 Phone 212 769-5100 Alt Phone 212 769-5200 Web Site www.amnh.org/ Description 32 million specimens and artifacts, Hall of Ocean life, Einstein, Vietnam Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus: Nature History Kind of Activity IMAX Group Identity Native American New or Updated: 07/17/2003

	NY New York Children's Museum of Manhattan The Tisch Building 212 West 83rd St New York NY 10024 Phone 212 721-1234 Web Site http://www.cmom.org/ Description 5 floors including WordPlay for 1-4month olds, computer lab, creativity lab, media center Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Children New or Updated: 3/10/2004 NY New York Children's Museum of the Arts 182 Lafayette Street New York NY 10012 Phone 212 941-9198 Web Site http://www.cmany.org/about.html Alt Web http://www.midmanhattan.com/kids/aChildMusArts.htm Description interactive exhibits including creative play area, artist's studio, actor's studio, ballpond, magnetic masterpieces Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Children New or Updated: 3/10/2004 NY New York Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 East 91st Street New York NY 10128 Phone 212 849-8400 Web Site http://ndm.si.edu/ Description focus on design, international, housed in Andrew Carnegie mansion Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection A-F Decorative Arts New or Updated: 5/15/2004	Google
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	New York New York Czech Center Address New York NY Phone Web Site www.czech.cz/new_york Description alternating exhibits of Czech art Type of Resource Museum NY New York Dahesh Museum 601 5th Avenue #5 New York NY 10017 Phone 212 759-0606 Web Site www.daheshmuseum.org Description dedicated to collecting and exhibiting 19th and early 20th century European academic art Type of Resource Museum New or Updated: 9/23/2005 NY New York El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10029 Phone 212 831-7272 Web Site www.elmuseo.org E-mail mailto:info@elmuseo.org Description focus on Latin American art & culture with special dedication to Puerto Rico Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Group Identity Latin American New or Updated: 12/30/2005 NY New York Forbes Magazine Galleries 60 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10011 Phone 212 206-5548 Web Site http://www.forbesgalleries.com/ Alt Web http://www.theinsider.com/nyc/hidden/004forbe.htm Description dioramas with 10,000 toy soldier, trophy collection, more -- personal collection of magazine founder Type of Resource Museum Collection G-M Models New or Updated: 9/29/2005
	New York New York Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York NY 10021 Phone 212 288-0700 Web Site www.frick.org Description in steel baron's mansion, fine and decorative art from the Renaissance to the 19th century Type of Resource Museum Grey Art Gallery, NYU 100 Washington Square East NYU New York NY 10003 Phone 212 998-6780 Web Site www.nyu.edu/greyart Description NYU fine arts museum Type of Resource Museum NY New York Hispanic Society of America Audubon Terrace mail 613 West 155th St New York NY 10032 Phone 212 926-2234 Web Site www.hispanicsociety.org Description paintings by Spanish masters, furniture, Roman artifacts Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection A-F Decorative Arts Collection N-Z Paintings Group Identity Latin American Research /Reading Library New or Updated: 11/30/2005

	New York New York International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York NY 10036 Phone 212 860-1777 Web Site www.icp.org Description rotating exhibits of predominantly documentary photos Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection N-Z Photography NY New York Intrepid Air-Sea-Space Pier 86, W46th St & 12th Ave New York NY 10036 Phone 212 245-0072 Web Site www.intrepidmuseum.org/ Description CLOSED UNTIL FALL 2008 Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Military New or Updated: 4/10/2007 NY New York Jewish Museum 1109 5th Avenue New York NY 10128 Phone 212 423-3200 Web Site www.thejewishmuseum.org Description Jewish culture through history, mostly in Israel and Europe Type of Resource Museum Group Identity Jewish New or Updated: 12/30/2005 NY New York Lower East Side Tenement Museum 108 Orchard St New York NY 10002 Phone 212 431-0233 Web www.tenement.org E-mail mailto:lestm@tenement.org?subject=Inquiry Alt Web www.wnet.org/tenement Description depiction of life in a tenement, in an actual tenement building Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Building Field of Study/Science Facility Social History New or Updated 2/9/2006

	New York New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue New York NY 10028 Phone 212 879-5500 Web Site www.metmuseum.org Description The Big Kahuna of US museums, with major collections in almost everything. After a day at the Met, the only question is: which wing do I start with tomorrow? Type of Resource Museum NY New York MoMa Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street New York NY 10019 Phone 212 408-6300 Alt Phone 212 708-9800 Web Site www.moma.org Description 20th century work, films, Picasso, VanGogh, Matisse, Monet, Warhol, Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection A-F Drawings Collection G-M Models Collection N-Z Paintings Research Library Era 20th New or Updated: 9/13/2006 NY New York Museum of Arts & Design 40 W 53rd Street New York NY 10019 Phone 212 956-3535 Web Site http://www.americancraftmuseum.org/ Description mostly modern, cutting-edge objects created in tradition and new media, formerly American Craft Museum Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts New or Updated: 8/24/2005

	New York New York Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor New York NY 10013 Phone 212 619-4785 Web Site http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~chin/mca/info.html Description studies the Chinese presence in the Americas, exhibits on immigrants and Type of Resource Museum Group Identity Chinese Museum of the American Indian Audubon Terrace New York NY 10032 Phone 212 283-2420 Web Site Description collections from all parts of the country Type of Resource Museum Group Identity Native American NY New York Museum of the City of New York 1220 5th Avenue New York NY 10029 Phone 212 534-1672 Web www.mcny.org Description from New Amsterdam on, in all media, the city is here -- period rooms, several art collections Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Local History Industry /Profession Textiles Collection A-F Decorative Arts Collection Silver New or Updated 2/4/2006 NY New York National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts 1083 5th Avenue New York NY 10128 Phone 212 389-4880 Web Site http://www.nationalacademy.org/ E-mail mailto:jsternberg@nationalacademy.org Description since 1826 - rotating exhibits of permanent (8000 items) and temporary exhibits of American art in all media Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection N-Z Paintings Owner/Operator: National Academy of Design New or Updated: 10/13/2005

	NY New York National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center Alexander Hamilton US Custom House One Bowling Green New York NY 10004 Phone 212 514-3700 Web Site http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny&third=hours Description collections from all parts of the country Type of Resource Museum Group Identity Native American New or Updated: 3/15/2004 NY New York New Museum of Contemporary Art/Chelsea 556 West 22nd St New York NY 10011 Phone 212 219-1222 Web www.newmuseum.org E-mail mailto:newmu@newmuseum.org Description exclusively for the work of living artists Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Kind of Activity Link List New or Updated 2/6/2006 NY New York New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York NY 10024 Phone 212 873-3400 Web Site www.nyhistory.org Description city collections, exhibits, programs, prints, Kid City, almost all of Audubon's birds, extensive Tiffany Studios collection Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Local History Collection Birds Collection Paintings Research Library New or Updated: 4/17/2006 NY New York Pierpont Morgan Library 29 East 36th Street New York NY 10016 Phone 212 590-0300 Web www.morganlibrary.org E-mail mailto:media@morganlibrary.org Description complex of buildings with exhibitions and library, focus on medieval art and studies Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Field of Study/Science Facility Architecture Collection A-F Books Collection G-M Manuscripts Collection Prints Research Library Era Medieval New or Updated 2/9/2006

	New York New York Salamagundi Museum of American Art 47 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10003 Phone 212 255-7740 Web Site Description modern realist art Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts NY New York School of Visual Arts Museum 209 East 23rd Street New York NY 10010 Phone 212 592-2145 Web Site http://www.nyc.com/go.aspx?sn=School+of+Visual+Arts+Museum++&url=htt p://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu%2FMuseumGalleries%2F E-mail mailto:galleriesandmuseum@sva.edu Description museum is one of several galleries of art school Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection N-Z Photography New or Updated: 3/22/2004 Sidney Mishkin Gallery of Baruch College 135 East 22nd Street New York NY 10010 Phone 212 802-2690 Web Site www.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin Description Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection N-Z Photography NY New York Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustrators 128 East 63rd Street New York NY 10021 Phone 212 838-2560 Web Site www.societyillustrators.org Description pictures from magazines, books, and other public spaces; Norman Rockwell and others Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection Prints New or Updated: 2/27/2006 NY New York Solomon Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue New York NY 10128 Phone 212 423-3500 Web Site http://www.guggenheim.org/ Description possibly the most famous museum building in the country houses modern works from Kandinsky, Picasso, Giacometti, others Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts New or Updated: 5/5/2005

	New York New York Spanish Institute 684 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 Phone 212 628-0420 Web Site Description Type of Resource Museum NY New York Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street New York NY 10027 Phone 212 864-4500 Web Site www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Description African, Caribbean, African American Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Group Identity African American New or Updated: 11/19/2005 NY New York The Cloisters Fort Tryon Park New York NY 10040 Phone 212 923-3700 Web Site http://www.metmuseum.org/visitor/index.asp - Cloisters Description re-creation of a medieval monastery in NYC, filled with medieval art Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection Tapestries Era Medieval New or Updated: 2/24/2006 NY New York Ukrainian Museum 222 East 6th St New York NY 10003 Phone 212 228-0110 Web Site http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ Description traditional clothing, other changing exhibits Type of Resource Museum Industry /Profession Textiles Collection A-F Folk Art Collection N-Z Photograpy Group Identity Eastern European Research /Reading Library New or Updated: 12/30/2005

	New York New York Visual Arts Museum 209 East 23rd Street New York NY 10010 Phone 212 592-2144 Web Site Description Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Collection N-Z Photography NY New York Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave #5 New York NY 10021 Phone 212 570-3676 Web Site http://www.whitney.org/index.php Toll Free 800 WHITNEY Description exclusively American art, large holdings of Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe and Reginald Marsh Type of Resource Museum Primary Focus Arts Research /Reading Library New or Updated: 8/18/2005 NY New York Yeshiva University Museum 15 West 16th St New York NY 10011 Phone 212 294-8330 Web Site www.yu.edu/museum Description Jewish life in all aspects, international artistic & intellectual achievements Type of Resource Museum Group Identity Jewish New or Updated: 12/30/2005

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