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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a museum in New York, NY, part of the New York City guide. Cost: $25 to $50. Open year-round.

1000 Fifth Ave · New York, NY

Why you should go…

The Met isn't just a museum, it's a world tour: an entire Egyptian temple, armor-clad knights, Van Goghs and Vermeers, all inside one grand Fifth Avenue palace. In warmer months, the rooftop garden pairs contemporary art with a Central Park panorama. Pick two or three wings and savor them, nobody sees it all in a day.

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    Central Park

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    843 acres of lakes, lawns and leafy paths in the heart of Manhattan, rowboats, Bethesda Terrace, the Mall and more.

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    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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    Frank Lloyd Wright's spiraling white rotunda on Fifth Avenue, a UNESCO-listed building as famous as the art inside it.

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    Dinosaurs, the great blue whale and a planetarium under one roof, one of the world's great museums, beloved by kids.

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    The Frick Collection

    $25–$50

    See paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt and Goya hung in the rooms of Henry Clay Frick's Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue.

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    Central Park Zoo

    Under $25

    See snow leopards, penguins, sea lions and red pandas at a compact 6.5-acre zoo inside Central Park.

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    Lincoln Center

    Free

    See opera, ballet, symphony and theater at a 16-acre arts campus built around a central plaza and its fountain.

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