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Museums & Galleries
Upper East Side
Museum Mile
Description
The cultural institutions that make their home along Museum Mile offer some of the City's finest collections of art, history, design and culture from around the globe. Anchoring the downtown end of the Mile is the world-renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose permanent collection comprises more than 2 million works. On the uptown end is El Museo del Barrio, which is devoted to Latino—and particularly Puerto Rican—art and culture. Other stops include The Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Academy Museum, Neue Galerie, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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Type
Museums