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landscapes of the Hudson River School are highlights. Anna Huntington's spiralling sculp-
ture Diana of the Chase gets pride of place below the cheerful rotunda, one of several natur-
alistic bronze castings of the Greek goddess Huntington completed in 1922.
COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM
2 E 91st St at Fifth Ave. Subway #4, #5, #6 to 86th St.
212 849 8400,
Wcooperhewitt.org . Mon-Fri
10am-5pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun noon-6pm. $15. MAP
This museum is housed in a mansion completed for the industrialist Andrew Carnegie in
1902 - the handsome interior is as much a draw as the exhibits. An ambitious redevelop-
ment project (“Re:Design”) will see the property restored and expanded to house a perman-
ent exhibition dubbed “What is Design?” on the first floor, drawing on the museum's collec-
tion of 200,000 items, and two higher floors of temporary exhibits. The museum will be
closed until 2015 while the main work is completed.
JEWISH MUSEUM
1109 Fifth Ave at E 92nd St. Subway #6 to 96th St.
212 423 3200,
www.thejewishmuseum.org . Fri-Tues
11am-5.45pm, Thurs 11am-8pm. $12, Sat free. MAP
With over 28,000 items, this is the largest museum of Judaica outside Israel. Highlights of
the permanent exhibition, “Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey”, include a large
and rare collection of Hanukkah lamps, the oldest dating from eighteenth-century Eastern
Europe and Germany; you'll also find absorbing temporary displays of works by major in-
ternational Jewish artists, such as Chagall and Man Ray.
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
1220 Fifth Ave at E 103rd St. Subway #6 to 103rd St.
212 534 1672,
www.mcny.org . Daily
10am-6pm. Suggested donation $10. MAP
Housed in a grand neo-Georgian building purpose-built in 1930, the Museum of the City of
New York has been transformed by major renovations in recent years. Most of the galleries
feature temporary exhibits - subjects delve into all sorts of New York-related topics, from
affordable housing and Currier & Ives prints (the museum has one of the world's largest col-
lections) to World Fairs and the Gilded Age. The enlightening “Timescape” audiovisual
presentation (25min; 15min and 45min past the hour) on the second floor, which tackles the
history of the city from the Lenape Indians to 9/11, is permanent, as is the Activist New
York gallery , a thought-provoking journey through the city's most contentious protest
movements, from defending the Quakers in the 1650s to modern debates on gay rights.
MUSEO DEL BARRIO
1230 Fifth Ave at E 104th St. Subway #6 to 103rd St.
212 831 7272,
www.elmuseo.org . Wed-Sat
11am-6pm. Suggested donation $9 (free every 3rd Sat of month). MAP
Literally translated as “the neighbourhood museum”, Museo del Barrio has largely a Puerto
Rican emphasis in its traditional and contemporary collections, but the museum embraces
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