Hi Everyone ,
I'm from Belgium and new on this forum.
Next year ,we have a return to N-Y.
Last time , I was leaving N-Y without a visit to a museum . Believe me that's a shame and that's my question to your : I would to know which one would be the best museum in downtown Manhattan. Sorry ...but I'm not a regular museum-goer.
Thank a lot
The Iceman



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what are yours interests?



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Hi,
I can't make a choise between Moma and Metropolitan Museum of Art New York .



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Another option...


A New York City Museum that tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

[www.tenement.org]

[www.newyorkology.com]



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Hi Moderator ,
Thanks a lot mate, for the links...super!!!

When you say downtown, where do you mean? The MOMA is in Midtown (near Rock Center) and the MET is on the Upper East Side (the Frick Collection, Guggenheim and Museum of the City of New York).

Someone submitted this comparison of the MET and MOMA museums [www.nycinsiderguide.com]

Also, here's a list of when the Museums are free:
[www.nycinsiderguide.com]

GUGGENHEIM FREE DAY MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ON OCTOBER 21, 2009

Special Activities to Celebrate Fifty Years Since Frank Lloyd Wright Landmark Opened its Doors on Fifth Avenue

What: Free Day at the Guggenheim Museum to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary
When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 from 10:00 am to 5:45 pm
Where: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, New York City

Admission: FREE


(NEW YORK, NY – October 1, 2009) – To celebrate the 50th birthday of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building, the museum will extend free admission to the public on Wednesday, October 21 from 10 am to 5:45 pm. Throughout the day, visitors will enjoy special activities, including:

• Photo Opportunities – Visitors may have their pictures taken in the 50th Anniversary photo booth and are encouraged to upload the images onto the museum’s Flickr group at flickr.com/groups/freeday.

• Anniversary Eye Tours – Interactive tours with museum educators will be offered in five languages as well as tours for partially sighted, blind, and deaf audiences.

• Documentary Film – Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum, a 27-minute film that explores the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum and chronicles the building’s conception, construction, and critical reception, will screen all day.

• Educational Activities for Families – From 1 to 5 pm, various family-friendly interactive projects will take place at stations throughout the museum. Family Architecture Activity Guides will also be distributed to children ages 12 and under.

• Story Circle – From 11 am to 3 pm, on the hour, readings of picture books, including I’d Like the Goo-Gen-Heim by A. C. Hollingsworth, will take place.

• Free Guggenheim Cookies – At 3 pm, enjoy free cookies, inspired by the GuggenheimKids new product line, while supplies last.

• Green Bag Giveaway – The first 50 people in line will receive a 50th Anniversary reusable tote bag, also available for purchase in the Guggenheim Store.

• Raffle – All visitors can enter a children’s or adult raffle to win items from the Guggenheim Store. Highlights include a necklace and cuff links from the museum’s Restoration Rocks jewelry line and a backpack filled with a LEGO Guggenheim Museum building set and products from the GuggenheimKids line.

• Live Twitter Tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building – From 4:30 to 5:30 pm, the Guggenheim Twitter team, museum visitors, and followers around the world will have the chance to discuss and post thoughts and observations during a live Tweet conversation. Participants can include #GUGG50 in their tweets or visit twitter.com/Guggenheim to follow the museum on Twitter.

• Opening day for The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim Anish Kapoor: Memory – Visitors will be among the first to see the New York presentation of a major site-specific sculptural installation that weighs 24 tons by leading international artist Anish Kapoor. The exhibition is on view through March 28, 2010.

• Harry Winston Jewels Inspired by the Guggenheim – For one-day only, Guggenheim-inspired diamond jewelry will be on display in the Guggenheim Store.

In addition, the following exhibitions will be on view:

• Kandinsky
Through January 13, 2010

• Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902-14: A Life in Photographs
Through January 13, 2010

• Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn
October 2, 2009–January 6, 2010

• Intervals: Kitty Kraus
October 9, 2009–January 6, 2010

A special New York City tribute will occur on October 21.

• The Empire State Building Celebrates – At dusk, the Empire State Building will be lit Guggenheim red in honor of the 50th Anniversary. Throughout October, the Empire State Building presents a dynamic timeline of the history of the Guggenheim Museum in the main entrance lobby.

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum
The October 21st Free Day is part of a year-long celebration of art, architecture, and innovation planned for the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim’s landmark building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Complete and up-to-date information on all of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary programs and activities is available at guggenheim.org/50.

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and also provides programming and management for two other museums in Europe that bear its name: the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum, a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by architect Frank Gehry, is scheduled to open in 2013.

Museum Hours: Sun–Wed, 10 am–5:45 pm; Fri, 10 am–5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am–7:45 pm. Closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish. For general information call 212 423 3500 or visit guggenheim.org.

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October 1, 2009

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lauren Van Natten, Senior Publicist
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
212 423 3840
pressoffice@guggenheim.org

Marisa Wayne
Rubenstein Communications, Associate Vice President
212 843 9216
mwayne@rubenstein.com

The DIA in Beacon 1 hr 40 min metro north from Grand Central is a world class museum. There is also a DIA in Chelsea.

[www.diabeacon.org]