The Museum Project: All the Museums in New York Database

Here is my comprehensive list of all museums in New York City, in searchable, sortable database form.  Links will take you to my review (assuming I’ve completed it).

Museum Name	Borough	Type	Open as of 4/2021	Edification	Entertainment	Go?	AAM Continuum of Excellence
9/11 Tribute Museum	Manhattan	History	X	3	2	3
African Burial Ground National Monument	Manhattan	History		3	1	4
Abrons Arts Center	Manhattan	Art		3	2	2
A.I.R. Gallery	Brooklyn	Art	X	2	2	2
Alice Austen House	Staten Island	Historic house		3	4	4	X
American Folk Art Museum	Manhattan	Art	X	2	2	2	X
Americas Society	Manhattan	Art	X	3	2	3
Aperture Foundation	Manhattan	Media		2	3	2
Asia Society Museum	Manhattan	Art	X	2	2	2	X
Austrian Cultural Forum Gallery	Manhattan	Culture	X	3	3	3
Bard Graduate Center Gallery	Manhattan	Art		3	3	3	X
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum	Bronx	Historic house	X	2	3	2	X
Bayside Historical Society	Queens	History		2	3	2	X
Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El	Manhattan	Jewish		3	3	3
BLDG 92 at Brooklyn Navy Yard	Brooklyn	Multiple		4	3	4
Bowne House	Queens	Historic house		3	3	2	X
BRIC House	Brooklyn	Art	X	2	3	3
Valentine-Varian House / Museum of Bronx History	Bronx	Historic house		2	2	2	X
Bronx Museum of the Arts	Bronx	Art	X	4	3	4	X
Bronx River Art Center	Bronx	Art		2	3	2
Brooklyn Botanic Garden	Brooklyn	Botanic garden	X	2	2	3
Brooklyn Historical Society	Brooklyn	History		3	3	3
Brooklyn Museum	Brooklyn	Art	X	3	5	4	X
Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall	Manhattan	Music		2	3	2
Castle Clinton National Monument	Manhattan	History	X	2	2	2
Center for Architecture	Manhattan	Art		2	2	2
Center for Book Arts	Manhattan	Art	X	2	3	3	X
Center for Jewish History/ Yeshiva University Museum	Manhattan	Ethnic - Jewish		4	3	4
China Institute	Manhattan	Art		3	3	3
City Island Nautical Museum	Bronx	History		3	2	2
City Reliquary	Brooklyn	History	X	3	4	3
Clemente Center	Manhattan	Culture	X	2	2	2
Children's Museum of the Arts	Manhattan	Children's		3	4	3	X
Children's Museum of Manhattan	Manhattan	Children's	X	2	2	2
Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library	Manhattan	Library		3	3	3
Coney Island Museum	Brooklyn	Amusement		3	3	4
Conference House	Staten Island	Historic house		1	3	2	X
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum	Manhattan	Design		4	4	4
Czech Center New York	Manhattan	Culture	X	2	3	3
DareDevil Tattoo Museum	Manhattan	Culture	X	3	3	3
Derfner Judaica Museum	Bronx	Ethnic - Jewish	X	3	3	3	X
Dia: Chelsea	Manhattan	Art		3	3	4
Dorsky Gallery	Queens	Art		3	3	3	X
Drawing Center	Manhattan	Art	X	3	3	3
Dyckman Farmhouse	Manhattan	Historic house	X	3	2	3	X
El Museo del Barrio	Manhattan	Art	X	2	2	2	X
Museum at Eldridge Street	Manhattan	Culture - Jewish		4	3	4
Ellis Island National Immigration Museum	Manhattan	History	X	5	4	5	X
Enrico Caruso Museum of America	Brooklyn	History	X	3	3	3
FDNY Fire Zone	Manhattan	Firefighting	X	2	2	1
Federal Hall National Memorial	Manhattan	History		4	3	4
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Museum	Manhattan	Finance / History		3	5	4
New York City Fire Museum	Manhattan	History	X	4	3	4	X
Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art	Bronx	Art	X	3	2	3
Fort Totten Visitor’s Center & Water Battery	Queens	Military	X	1	2	2
Fort Wadsworth	Staten Island	Military	X	3	3	4
Fraunces Tavern Museum	Manhattan	History	X	3	3	4	X
Museum of the American Gangster	Manhattan	History		2	4	2
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum	Staten Island	Ethnic		3	2	2
General Grant National Memorial	Manhattan	History		4	3	5
Godwin-Ternbach Museum	Queens	Art		3	3	3	X
Governors Island National Monument	Manhattan	History	X	3	2	3
Gracie Mansion	Manhattan	Historic house		3	3	4	X
Green-Wood Cemetery	Brooklyn	History	X	4	4	4
Grey Art Gallery	Manhattan	Art		2	3	3
Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation	Manhattan	Art		4	4	4
Ground Zero Museum Workshop	Manhattan	History	X	1	1	1
Guggenheim Museum	Manhattan	Art	X	3	3	2	X
Hall of Fame for Great Americans	Bronx	Hall of fame		5	3	5
New York Hall of Science	Queens	Science		3	4	3
Hamilton Grange National Memorial	Manhattan	Historic house		4	3	5
Harbor Defense Museum	Brooklyn	Military		4	3	4	X
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum	Manhattan	Ethnic - Jewish		3	3	2
Historic Richmond Town	Staten Island	Historic	X	3	4	3	X
Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture	Bronx	Art		3	2	3
Hunter College Art Galleries	Manhattan	Art	X	3	3	2	X
International Center of Photography	Manhattan	Art - Photography	X	3	3	3	X
International Print Center	Manhattan	Art	X	2	3	3
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum	Manhattan	Science	X	4	4	5
Isamu Noguchi Museum	Queens	Art		4	4	5	X
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art	Staten Island	Culture	X	2	3	2	X
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning	Queens	Art	X	2	2	2
Japan Society Gallery	Manhattan	Culture	X	3	3	3
National Jazz Museum in Harlem	Manhattan	Music		2	2	1
Jewish Museum	Manhattan	Ethnic - Jewish	X	3	3	3	X
Judd Foundation	Manhattan	Art		4	4	3	X
Kehila Kedosha Janina Museum	Manhattan	Culture	X	3	2	2
King Manor Museum	Queens	Historic house	X	3	3	3	X
Kingsland Homestead / Queens Historical Society	Queens	Historic house	X	2	2	2	X
Korea Society Gallery	Manhattan	Art		1	1	1
Korean Cultural Center Gallery	Manhattan	Art	X	3	2	3
Lefferts Historic House	Brooklyn	Historic house		2	3	2	X
Lehman College Art Gallery	Bronx	Art		4	3	3
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art	Manhattan	Art	X	3	4	3
Lewis Latimer House	Queens	Historic house		4	3	4	X
The Living Museum	Queens	Art		3	4	5
Louis Armstrong House Museum	Queens	Historic house		3	4	4
Museum of Arts and Design	Manhattan	Art	X	4	4	4	X
Madame Tussauds	Manhattan	Wax museum	X	2	5	2
Maritime Industry Museum	Bronx	Maritime		4	5	3
Museum of the City of New York	Manhattan	History	X	5	4	5	X
Merchant’s House Museum	Manhattan	Historic house	X	3	4	4	X
Frick Madison	Manhattan	Art	X	5	5	5	X
Mmuseumm	Manhattan	Culture	X	3	4	3
Museum of Chinese in America	Manhattan	Culture - Chinese American		4	3	4	X
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts	Brooklyn	Culture		2	3	2
Museum of Food and Drink	Brooklyn	Culture		3	3	3	X
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)	Manhattan	Art	X	5	5	5	X
MoMA PS1	Queens	Art	X	3	4	4	X
Museum of Mathematics	Manhattan	Science		4	4	3
The Morgan Library & Museum	Manhattan	Art	X	5	4	5	X
Morris-Jumel Mansion	Manhattan	Historic house		3	3	3	X
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)	Manhattan	History	X	2	3	1
Mossman Lock Collection	Manhattan	Technology	X	4	3	3
Mount Vernon Hotel	Manhattan	Historic house		3	3	3	X
Museum of the Moving Image	Queens	Media		4	5	4	X
Museum at FIT	Manhattan	Textile		4	3	3	X
Museum of American Illustration	Manhattan	Art	X	4	4	4
Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust	Manhattan	Culture - Jewish	X	5	2	4
Museum of Sex	Manhattan	Sex	X	1	4	2
American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog	Manhattan	Culture	X	3	3	2
National Lighthouse Museum	Staten Island	History	X	3	2	3	X
National September 11 Memorial & Museum	Manhattan	History	X	4	1	3	X
National Track and Field Hall of Fame	Manhattan	Sports		4	3	3
American Museum of Natural History	Manhattan	Natural history	X	5	4	5	X
Neue Galerie	Manhattan	Art		4	4	4
New Museum	Manhattan	Art	X	3	4	3	X
New York Botanical Garden	Bronx	Botanical garden	X	3	4	4	X
New York Earth Room	Manhattan	Art	X	2	2	5
New-York Historical Society	Manhattan	History	X	4	5	4	X
New York School of Interior Design Gallery	Manhattan	Art		1	2	2
New York Transit Museum	Brooklyn	Transportation		3	4	4	X
Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art	Staten Island	Art		2	1	2
Noble Maritime Collection	Staten Island	Maritime	X	4	4	5	X
American Numismatic Society Gallery	Manhattan	Numismatic		3	2	2
New York Public Library (Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)	Manhattan	Multiple		5	5	4
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts	Manhattan	Art		3	4	4
Old Stone House	Brooklyn	Historic house	X	2	3	2	X
Onassis Cultural Center	Manhattan	Art		3	3	4
Park Avenue Armory	Manhattan	Art		3	3	4
Parsons – The New School Gallery	Manhattan	Art		4	3	3
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage	Bronx	Historic house		2	3	3	X
New York City Police Museum	Manhattan	History		3	2	2	X
Poster House	Manhattan	Art	X	4	4	4	X
Pratt Manhattan Gallery	Manhattan	Art		2	3	3
Queens Botanical Garden	Queens	Botanical Garden	X	2	3	2	X
Queens College Art Center	Queens	Art		2	3	1
Queens County Farm Museum	Queens	Farm	X	2	3	3	X
Queens Museum	Queens	Art	X	3	4	4
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation	Manhattan	Art	X	3	2	2
Roosevelt House	Manhattan	Historic House		3	3	3
Rubin Museum of Art	Manhattan	Art	X	5	3	5
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture	Manhattan	African American		3	4	4
SculptureCenter	Queens	Art	X	3	3	3	X
South Street Seaport Museum	Manhattan	Maritime		2	3	2	X
Shirley Fiterman Art Center	Manhattan	Art		2	3	3
Skyscraper Museum	Manhattan	Architecture		4	2	3
National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center	Manhattan	Native American		4	3	3	X
Socrates Sculpture Park	Queens	Art	X	3	3	3
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine	Manhattan	Culture	X	5	4	5
Staten Island Children’s Museum	Staten Island	Children's	X	3	4	3	X
Staten Island Museum	Staten Island	Multiple	X	3	3	3	X
Statue of Liberty	Manhattan	History	X	3	4	4
Studio Museum in Harlem	Manhattan	Art		4	3	3	X
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling	Manhattan	Children's		3	4	3	X
Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York	Manhattan	Art	X	1	2	1
Lower East Side Tenement Museum	Manhattan	Historic house		4	5	4
The Cloisters	Manhattan	Art	X	5	5	5	X
The Frick Collection	Manhattan	Art		5	5	5	X
The Grolier Club	Manhattan	Literary	X	4	4	3
Nicholas Roerich Museum	Manhattan	Art	X	3	3	3
Ukrainian Museum	Manhattan	Ethnic - Ukrainian-American		2	1	2
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site	Manhattan	Historic house		2	3	4
Tibet House Gallery	Manhattan	Art		1	2	2
Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal	Manhattan	Transportation		3	2	3
Trinity Church	Manhattan	History		3	3	4
Ukrainian Institute of America	Manhattan	Art	X	3	4	4
United Nations Headquarters	Manhattan	Historic building		5	4	4
Van Cortlandt House Museum	Bronx	Historic house	X	3	4	3	X
Vander Ende-Onderdonk House	Queens	Historic house	X	2	3	2
Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary, and Victorian Garden	Queens	Historic house	X	3	3	2
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center	Brooklyn	Art	X	2	3	2
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University	Manhattan	Art		3	2	3
Waterfront Museum	Brooklyn	Maritime	X	2	3	2
Wave Hill	Bronx	Botanical garden, art, historic house	X	5	5	5
Weeksville Heritage Center	Brooklyn	History		3	2	3
Westbeth Gallery	Manhattan	Art		3	3	4	X
White Columns	Manhattan	Art	X	2	3	2
Whitney Museum of American Art	Manhattan	Art	X	4	5	5	X
Woodlawn Cemetery	Bronx	History	X	4	4	5
Wyckoff House Museum	Brooklyn	Historic house		3	3	5	X
Amud Aish Memorial Museum (KHEC)	Brooklyn	History	X				X
Brooklyn Children's Museum	Brooklyn	Children's	X				X
Jewish Children's Museum	Brooklyn	Children's	X
Metropolitan Museum of Art	Manhattan	Art	X				X

Some notes:

• At the outset of the museum project, I defined “museum” broadly. This database includes historic homes, botanic gardens, two historic (and beautiful) cemeteries, and a few selected nonprofit or not-for-profit art galleries.
• If a place lacks a link, that means I haven’t reviewed it yet — or else I’m behind on updating this table.  Most likely the former though.
• If I had an unpaid intern, I would add links to each museum’s website on this table.  As it is, that won’t happen anytime soon.
• While you can’t sort sequentially by multiple columns, you can sort the results of a search.  For example, to see my favorite museums in Queens, you could search on “queens” and then sort descending by the “should you go” rating.