Museums

The effort to stop construction on a new educational center at the American Museum of Natural History has likely come to an end. The...

UPDATED, 4:28 p.m. April 12: The New Museum of Contemporary Art wants to add a new seven-story building to its campus. The museum filed...

Stalled by the recession and afflicted by slow sales, the luxury condominium tower at 53 West 53rd Street hasn’t exactly been a roaring success....

More like LessMA. As it enters the home stretch of its $400 million expansion, New York’s Museum of Modern Art will be closing its...

Glenstone Museum, home to billionaire couple Mitchell and Emily Rales’ private collection of contemporary and modern art, is opening this week after a pricey...

1888: Foundation laid for Natural History Museum enlargement The excavation for the American Museum of Natural History’s expansion was completed 130 years ago this month,...

The American Museum of Natural History is moving ahead with its $383 million expansion, even though community activists are waiting for their day in...

Liquidating assets by auctioning off a painting or two seems routine unless the seller is an art museum. Last summer, the Berkshire Museum made...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is considering selling its executive apartment at 993 Fifth Avenue, as part of a larger — and controversial —...

The Children’s Museum of Manhattan will eventually move to a new home after buying a former church at 361 Central Park West for $45...

In the spring of 2014, Universal Hip Hop Museum executive director Rocky Bucano received an unusual phone call from the security guard at his...

Brutal! Modernist Marcel Breuer is best known for designing the original Whitney Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Of course, that masterpiece of...

From LLNYC: For decades, that house in Oak Park, Ill., operated as the Ernest Hemingway Museum. But not for much longer. The small institution is closing due to...

“Saturday Night Live” recently took a tour of the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum for a peek at how the other half lived a...

The interim head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art wants to slow the pace of major renovations at the cash-strapped museum in an attempt...

From LLNYC: Chocoholics rejoice! There’s a new niche-food museum in town, and this one is all about the cocoa bean. New York City’s Museum of...

From Luxury Listings NYC: For over a decade, we’ve been eagerly anticipating an angular, glass-wrapped tower at 53 West 53rd Street next door to the Museum of Modern Art. Now...

To design the new science center at the American Museum of Natural History, the architect melted a block of ice.

The Hip Hop Hall of Fame plans to bring a hybrid museum, hotel and performance center to Manhattan — in one of two undisclosed...

You can’t say that negotiating big lease deals are child’s play. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan has pulled out of talks to take about...