Best History Museum in New York City

American Museum of Natural History
Natural history museum
200 Central Park West • In Theodore Roosevelt Park


Museum of the City of New York
Local history museum
1220 5th Ave • Near El Museo del Barrio


New-York Historical Society
Museum
170 Central Park West • Near the American Museum of Natural History


Attractions
The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and


Historic places
Empire State Building, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and


Art museums
The Morgan Library & Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and


Museum at Eldridge Street
History museum
12 Eldridge St



Tenement Museum
History museum
103 Orchard St


The Museum of Interesting Things (advance appt only)
History museum
Georgetown Plaza, 60 E 8th St • In GeorgeTown Plaza


The Skyscraper Museum
Museum
39 Battery Pl


Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Museum
Pier 86, W 46th St


Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
History museum
36 Battery Pl • In Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park



Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)
History museum
155 Loisaida Ave


Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Historical place museum
28 E 20th St


Rose Center for Earth and Space
Natural history museum
81st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue • In the American Museum of Natural History


Exhibition-The Amer Gangster
Local history museum
80 St Marks Pl


National Museum of the American Indian
National museum
1 Bowling Green • In the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House


Merchant's House Museum
Museum
29 E 4th St


Sta of Liberty Museum
History museum
Liberty Island • In Liberty Island


Museum of Sex
Museum
233 5th Ave • Near Madison Square Park


KGB Espionage Museum
Museum
245 W 14th St


The Gilder Lehrman Collection
History museum
170 Central Park West • In the New-York Historical Society


The Jewish Museum
Art museum
1109 5th Ave • Near the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum