Whitney Museum of American Art

See 20th and 21st century American art in the galleries, then step out onto terraces above the Meatpacking District.

99 Gansevoort St · New York, NY

About Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney collects and shows American art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its collection holds more than 25,000 works by over 3,500 artists, and it is the largest repository of Edward Hopper's art and archives. The eight-story Renzo Piano building on Gansevoort Street opened in 2015, with four outdoor terraces, three of them linked by an exterior staircase. The ground floor, with its lobby, shop and Floor 1 gallery, is always free to enter.

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