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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art is a museum in New York, NY, part of the New York City guide. Cost: $25 to $50.

99 Gansevoort St · New York, NY

Why you should go…

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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