Welcome sixth graders. Your project, is you chose to pass, is to select FOUR New York City Institutions and create a six-page website, with a homepage, and an author essay describing why you love New York City. The following

Museums

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Art

• American Museum of the Moving Image
• American Folk Art Museum
• Asia Society
• Bronx Museum of the Arts
• The Dahesh Museum
• The Drawing Center
• Fisher Landau Center
• Forbes Galleries
• Frick Collection
• International Center of Photography
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
• Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
• Metropolitan Museum of Art – commonly called "The Met"
• The Cloisters – medieval art collection
• Municipal Art Society (includes the Urban Center Gallery)
• Museum for African Art
• Museum of Biblical Art
• Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – commonly called "MoCCA"
• Museum of Modern Art – MoMA
• Museum of Television and Radio
• Neue Galerie
• New Museum of Contemporary Art
• Noguchi Museum (aka The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum)
• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
• Queens Museum of Art
• Rubin Museum of Art
• SculptureCenter
• Socrates Sculpture Park
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
• Whitney Museum of American Art

Culture or History

• American Numismatic Society Museum
• Brooklyn Historical Society
• Brooklyn Museum
• Coney Island Museum
• The Hispanic Society of America
• Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
• Jewish Museum (New York)
• Merchants House Museum
• Museo del Barrio, El
• Museum of American Finance
• Museum of the City of New York
• Museum of Chinese in the Americas
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• National Museum of the American Indian (New York branch)
• New York City Fire Museum
• New York City Police Museum
• New York Historical Society
• New York Transit Museum
• Queens County Farm Museum
• Skyscraper Museum
• Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
• Yeshiva University Museum

Design

• Center for Architecture
• Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design
• Cooper Union's Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
• Fashion Institute of Technology
• National Academy of Design
• Parsons The New School for Design

Natural History

The AMNH in 2000

• American Museum of Natural History
• Hayden Planetarium (the Rose Center for Earth and Space)
• Bronx Zoo
• Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
• New York Aquarium
• New York Botanical Garden
• New York Hall of Science
• Queens Botanical Garden
• Staten Island Zoo
• Wave Hill

Children's Museums

• Brooklyn Children's Museum
• Children's Museum of the Arts
• Children's Museum of Manhattan
• Jewish Children's Museum
• Staten Island Children's Museum

Performing Arts

The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

• Avery Fisher Hall
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Metropolitan Opera House
• New York State Theater, which hosts:
• New York City Ballet
• New York City Opera

Music

• 92nd Street Y
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Manhattan School of Music
• Juilliard School
• Boys Choir of Harlem
• Mannes College of Music
• The New York Collegium
• City Parks Foundation

Theaters

• 92nd Street Y
• Apollo Theater
• Biltmore Theatre
• Bowery Ballroom
• Carnegie Hall
• Hammerstein Ballroom
• La MaMa, E.T.C.
• New York City Center
• The Public Theater
• Radio City Music Hall
• Royal WAH Theater
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• The Town Hall

Historically significant sites

Grant's tomb 2004

• African Burial Ground
• Bartow-Pell Mansion
• Ellis Island
• Federal Hall
• Fort Schuyler
• Governors Island
• Gracie Mansion
• Grant's Tomb
• Historic Richmond Town
• Irish Hunger Memorial
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
• Weeksville Heritage Center

World Trade Center Site

• International Freedom Center
• World Trade Center Memorial
• Tribute in Light

Libraries

New York Public Library, central block, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects (June, 2003) Located at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street

• Morgan Library
• New York Public Library
• New York Academy of Medicine Library
• New York Society Library
• Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
• Frick Art Reference Library
• Biblioteca Instituto Cervantes
• Shevchenko Scientific Society
• United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
• Cloisters Library and Archives
• Brooklyn Public Library
• Queens Public Library