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Explore the history, culture and daily life of New York City at the museum that has been documenting the world's most complex city since its founding in 1923, on Museum Mile at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, with over 750000 objects spanning four centuries of photographs, maps and personal archives.
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$25
Step into 15 immersive art and technology installations in lower Manhattan where light and sound and 16K laser projection and over 507000 LEDs create fully sensory environments that merge human creativity with artificial intelligence, at the groundbreaking Mercer Labs museum at 21 Dey Street in lower downtown New York City.
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$60
Explore the most important collection of 20th and 21st century American art in the world and step out onto the terraces for views across the Hudson River and the Meatpacking District skyline. The Whitney Museum in Manhattan is the home of the Whitney Biennial and holds over 25000 works by more than 4000 American artists with Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Mark Rothko among its defining holdings.
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$30
Rise to the top of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and see New York City and the surrounding region from 1268 feet above Lower Manhattan. One World Observatory on floors 100 to 102 of One World Trade Center is the highest observation deck in New York City and the only one with a clear unobstructed view of the Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor.
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$50
Visit one of the most important buildings of the 20th century and spiral down Frank Lloyd Wright's continuous ramp through a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Museum Mile holds works by Kandinsky, Picasso, Calder, Klee and Chagall, and the building itself was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
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$30
Board the USS Intrepid, a 900-foot Second World War aircraft carrier on the Hudson River, and explore the flight deck, hangar deck, Space Shuttle Enterprise, a Cold War submarine and the only Concorde on public display in the eastern United States. The Intrepid Museum is one of the most physically impressive museum experiences in New York.
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$40
Rise to the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and look south across the entire Manhattan skyline with the Empire State Building perfectly framed against the city behind it. Top of the Rock is the only major observation deck in New York from which you can see Central Park and the Empire State Building simultaneously in the same unobstructed panoramic sweep.
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$49
Explore the Art Deco heart of Midtown Manhattan on a guided tour of one of the most architecturally remarkable developments ever built in New York. Rockefeller Center covers 22 acres and 19 buildings of 1930s Art Deco architecture filled with murals, sculptures, mosaics and public art commissions that represent the most ambitious integration of art and architecture in American history.
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$48
Explore 45 exhibition halls covering the full breadth of the natural world and human cultures from a 63-foot dinosaur skeleton to the Hayden Planetarium to a 34-million-carat natural topaz crystal. The American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West is one of the largest museums in the world and holds a research collection of more than 34 million specimens and artefacts.
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$40
Walk across one of the most beautiful and historically significant suspension bridges in the world and take in sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline, the East River and the Brooklyn waterfront. The Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway is free and open around the clock but joining a guided walking tour unlocks the engineering story, the construction history and the human drama behind this masterpiece of 19th-century engineering.
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$50
Visit the two reflecting pools in the exact footprints of the Twin Towers and descend into the 9/11 Memorial Museum for the most moving account of the September 11 attacks and their lasting significance. The Memorial is free and open daily. The Museum below holds artefacts, survivor accounts and the final voicemails and calls of those lost in a space of extraordinary emotional power.
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$40
Rise to the 86th floor of New York's most famous skyscraper and step onto the open-air observation deck for an unobstructed 360-degree view across all five boroughs. The Empire State Building has welcomed visitors to its Art Deco crown since 1931 and on a clear day the views stretch 80 miles to the horizon. The 86th floor is where Cary Grant waited in An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle.
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$60
Spend a day in America's largest art museum and walk through 5000 years of human civilisation across 17 curatorial departments and two million works of art on the edge of Central Park. The Met holds ancient Egyptian temples, Rembrandt self-portraits, European armour, African masks, Impressionist masterworks and the largest collection of American art anywhere in the world.
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$65
Take the ferry across New York Harbor to America's most iconic monument and stand at the foot of the torch-bearing symbol of freedom that has welcomed arrivals to New York for over 140 years. Your ticket includes the ferry to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty Museum and the National Museum of Immigration, a combination that tells the entire story of American arrival.
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$31
Stand before Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Monet's Water Lilies at the world's most influential collection of modern and contemporary art. MoMA in Midtown Manhattan holds nearly 200000 works across painting, sculpture, photography, film, design and architecture and has defined the canon of modern art since 1929.
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$30
Experience the most immersive observation deck in New York City at SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, four levels of art installations, glass-floored balconies and panoramic views from the 91st floor of Midtown Manhattan's tallest skyscraper above Grand Central Terminal. SUMMIT combines the Empire State Building in direct view, the Central Park skyline and the East River in a 360-degree experience unlike any other in the city.
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$60
