New York – Tuesday, September 16, 2014

New York City is the capital of the art world, but if you aren’t an artist or an art collector, the idea of leaving your comfort zone and going out to see some art might seem a bit overwhelming. If you are a resident, or are planning a trip to the big apple, you might have a hard time navigating the couple hundred museums and over 1500 art galleries all within a few subway stops of your hotel (or apartment). We’ll make life a little easier for you. In alphabetical order, here are The Top 40 World Class New York Art Museums.

American Folk Museum

Asia Society and Museum

Bronx Museum of the Arts

Brooklyn Museum

Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA)

The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

El Museo del Barrio

Frick Collection

Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College

Hispanic Society of America

Japan Society

The Jewish Museum

Kosciuszko Foundation

Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)

MoMA PS1

Morgan Library & Museum

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Museum for African Art

Museum of American Illustration: Society of Illustrators

Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)

Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA)

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Museum of the Moving Image

National Academy Museum and School

National Museum of the American Indian

New Museum

Nicholas Roerich Museum

Noguchi Museum

Queens Museum

Rubin Museum of Art

Scandinavia House

Sculpture Center

Socrates Sculpture Park

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (The Guggenheim)

Staten Island Museum

Studio Museum in Harlem

Ukrainian Museum

Whitney Museum of American Art (The Whitney)

Don’t want to break the bank? The Smithsonian’s once a year “Free Museum Day” is Saturday, September 27th (that’s just two days after my show opens in the Lower East Side) Select partner museums around the country are free that day with the admit two coupon you can download and print from the web. You now have zero excuse to not go out and absorb some culture!

Written and Researched by Cojo ‘Art Juggernaut”