DK Travel : New York

With its skyscrapers, great museums, and bright lights of Broadway, New York is a city of superlatives. There are countless sights that have to be seen, but a handful are truly definitive of the city. These highlights illustrate the very best.

American Folk Art Museum

The first New York museum built from the ground up in 30 years, the eight-level, innovative, skylit structure shows off a great collection of this whimsical, all-American art form. Paintings, sculptures, quilts, weathervanes, samplers and furniture are among the items on show.
American Museum of Folk Art

The new museum quadruples the space for this extensive collection of folk art.
American Museum of Natural History

Long famous for its dinosaurs, the museum moves into the space age with the dramatic Rose Center for Earth and Space.
American Museum of Natural History

The largest museum of its kind in the world exhibits everything from dinosaurs to Chinese costumes and rare gems. In addition to the planetarium show in the Rose Center, there are nature films in a giant IMAX theater.
American Museum of Natural History

The mammoth museum whose holdings include 32 million artifacts.
American Museum of Natural History

Join throngs of New York parents introducing children to the world-famous dioramas of wild animals in realistic natural habitats and the fascinating dinosaur exhibits. The totem and giant canoe in the Northwest Coast Indian exhibit and the enormous meteorites and mineral rock specimens are also favorites. The Rose Center will intrigue older children and teens.
American Museum Of Natural History

Natural history studyes about our nature, ancient people's lifes.

My wish is to have a trip in one of the most beautiful museums in the world
American Standard Building

Raymond Hood’s first New York skyscraper is an ornate black tower built in 1924, now a hotel.
Amy Ruth’s

A cheerful café with an updated slant on Southern classics. Waffles are a house specialty.
Andrea Rosen

Since moving from SoHo to Chelsea, Rosen’s eclectic shows have made this one of the area’s most visited galleries.

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