Museum of the Moving Image (36 Av)

While there is no shortage of activities in NYC, there’s only one place where you can overdub Eddie Murphy’s voice in Coming to America and look at memorabilia from A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist. The Museum of the Moving Image opened in 1988 and is conveniently located next to Kaufman Astoria Studios. From 2008 to 2011, the museum underwent a $65 million expansion which doubled its size. It now holds more than 130,000 artifacts with 1,400 on display.

Video game fanatics can get lost in the Arcade Classics exhibit. Games go back as far as the early 1970s (Computer Space and Pong) and up to the early 1990s (Terminator 2 and Mortal Kombat). Tokens are included in the price of admission and more can be bought once inside.

After going through the Television Set and Video Camera exhibits, younger visitors may be shocked to learn that you couldn’t always fit a television and video camera into your pocket. Yes, young ones, you used to have to go to an arcade to play video games!