The museums in New York, or The Big Apple, are numerous and impressive. You will pretty much be able to see anything, whether it be art history, the history of the US, modern art, contemporary art, antique art or international art. Here, you will find a complete list of New York’s museums, and you can pick the ones you would like to visit.
The Tenement Museum depicts who the first immigrants lived upon coming to New York. Different tours give you the opportunity to see a couple of apartments and immediate surroundings. It is located in the Lower East side, immigrants’ first destination upon landing 200 years ago. The museum’s popularity is completely justified given the fact that immigrants make up for almost 100% population of both New York and the USA.
The Museum of Sex is quite unique and entertaining. It is a big attraction in New York with pretty unusual and humorous exhibitions for visitors. The museum aims to display the history, evolution and cultural importance of human sexuality. It was opened on 5 October, 2002 on Fifth Avenue. The Board consisted of scientists and historians. Many organizations dealing with such themes and topics contributed to the museum’s establishment. Some of them are Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the New-York Historical Society and the Lower East Side Museum. They had a great influence to make the museum as it is today, dynamic, innovative but also recognized in the world.
Madame Tussauds New York is a museum with more than 200 wax sculptures, located on Times Square, and it is one of the most famous wax museums in the world. Marie Tussaud was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. In 1777, Tussaud created her first wax sculpture of Voltaire and soon after began sculpting death masks of notable victims in the French Revolution. Dr. Phillipe Curtius died at the end of the 18th century, and Marie Tussaud inherited his entire collection.
