From fashion to finance, culture to international politics, New York is the center of almost everything, including knowledge.
Thus, it is not surprising that New York City has numerous world-renowned museums within its boundaries, and New York City museums tours are must for those who go to the Big Apple.
New York City museums tours are offered by almost every tour operator in the city, and all these museums tours cover the every world-renowned museums of the city.
If time and money are concerns though, people-in-the-know recommend to prioritize the three biggies in the list of New York's world-renowned museums list.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is fondly called "The Met," and has more than two million works of art varying from European, Asian, African, Greek, Roman, American, and Egyptian pieces produced by artists over a period of five thousand years.
The Met was established in 1870, and receives five million visitors every year. While some works are more popular than the others, all museums tours cover the most popular ones like the works of Monet, Van Gogh, and Picasso.
Museum of Modern Art.
If the Metropolitan Museum of Art is known as "The Met," the Museum of Modern Art is known as the "MoMa." It was established in 1929, and houses a vast collection of 150,000 pieces of modern and contemporary art. Aside from having this vast collection, the MoMa is also the leader in promoting the development of, and increase of the collection of modernist art.
Like when visiting the Met, museums tours also cover the most popular pieces when touring the MoMa, like the works of Van Gogh, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, and many other world-renowned modernist artists. MoMa's programs introducing what modern art are, and how it has developed must not also be missed.
American Museum of Natural History.
This museum was founded in 1869, and houses world-renowned exhibits like those on the habitat groups of Asia, African, and North American mammals, and the "Star of India," the largest blue sapphire in the world.
It is also popular for its Dinosaur Fossil Halls, the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the Hayden Planetarium, the Hall of Ocean Life which has the Big Blue Whale display, and the Hall of Gems and Minerals, among others.
It also has a vast collection of anthropological pieces displayed in the museum's Halls of Asian Peoples, Hall of Pacific Peoples, and Hall of Man in Africa, as well as other anthropological collections from Mexico and Central America, and those of Native Americans.
Aside from its impressive and fascinating exhibits, one of the interesting facts about the American Museum of Natural History is that it also offers tours inspired by the movie, "Night at the Museum.”
There are definitely other places of interests in New York City which will stimulate the mind and feed the soul at the same time, in the hierarchy of priorities; you will do well if you start with these three.
