Museums are archives of works that are or are expected to be historically important. The institutions listed here are membership organizations and display works that they own or have borrowed. Unlike galleries, works shown are not for sale, yet that line’s been blurring in recent years with the advent of a dynamic, investment-grade art scene, the continual erosion of shared public institutions, and the mutation of crass (old speak) to accessible (NewSpeak). All of the institutions listed here receive major public funding though direct government payments and private tax-exempt charitable donations.

The Asia Society
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
(212) 288-6400

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St., Bronx NY 10456
(718) 681-6000

The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052
(718) 638-5000;

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128
(212) 849-8400

Dia Center for the Arts
548 and 545 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
(212) 989-5566

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013
(212) 219-2166

The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
(212) 288-0700

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128
(212) 423-3500

Metropolitan Museum of Art (includes The Cloisters)
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028-0198
(212) 535-7710

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue (36th St)
New York, NY 10016
(212) 685-0008

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400

National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
(212) 369-4880

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery at The Art Students League of New York
215 West 57th Street, New York
(212) 247-4510

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, MoMA
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City, 11101
(718) 784-2084

Queens Museum of Art
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368
(718) 592-9700

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue At 75th Street, New York NY 10021
(212) 570-3600