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Inside a former Brooklyn subway station, this museum traces the engineering and everyday experiences behind New York's public transportation. Vintage subway cars, turnstiles and other transit objects show how the system developed and how trains and buses have shaped the city's social and cultural life.

Modern and contemporary art meets distinctive architecture in Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral museum. The rotunda ramp offers an unusual route through changing exhibitions, while the collection connects artists and movements from the late nineteenth century onward. The building is part of the experience of seeing the art.

Guided visits to recreated Lower East Side apartments tell the stories of immigrants and migrants who made New York their home. Drawing on the lives of real families, the museum connects work, housing and everyday experiences with the wider history of the area and the United States.

European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts fill the former Fifth Avenue home of collector Henry Clay Frick. The collection spans the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, bringing Old Master works into an intimate historic setting where the interiors are an essential part of the visit.

Art and Jewish culture meet in a collection that spans ancient times to the present. Ceremonial objects sit alongside modern and contemporary art, while exhibitions explore creativity, identity and history through Jewish experiences and their connections with cultures and communities around the world.

The Met brings together art from around the world across more than five thousand years. Its collections and changing exhibitions connect cultures, materials and artistic traditions, offering many routes through the history of creativity and opportunities to look closely at objects from different places and periods.

The Brant Foundation's East Village art study center occupies a former electrical substation that later served as Walter De Maria's studio. Four floors of exhibition space offer a setting for exploring modern and contemporary art through the foundation's changing presentations.

Gagosian's West 24th Street gallery is a major Chelsea exhibition space for modern and contemporary art. Changing presentations bring visitors into contact with work by established artists, offering a substantial gallery stop within the area's concentration of art spaces.

David Zwirner's West 20th Street location is part of the gallery's New York exhibition program. Solo and group presentations introduce different approaches to contemporary art, making this Chelsea space a useful starting point for exploring the gallery's artists and exhibitions.

Hauser & Wirth's West 22nd Street gallery occupies a five-story building designed by Annabelle Selldorf. Its exhibition spaces present modern and contemporary art in the Chelsea Arts District, with changing shows connecting visitors to the gallery's international program.

Pace's West 25th Street gallery is a large Chelsea destination for changing art exhibitions. Its multi-floor flagship hosts presentations by artists across the gallery's program, offering room to encounter painting, sculpture, installations and other approaches to modern and contemporary art.

Perrotin's New York gallery occupies a Lower East Side space on Orchard Street. Its changing exhibitions present artists from the gallery's international program, with solo and group shows offering varied approaches to painting, sculpture and contemporary visual culture.