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The Jewish Museum

Worth a stopMuseum Mile, Upper East Side·I’d go back

When I went: contemporary art on the first floor, plus uninteresting Judaica. Two of my dislikes in one place.

What it is

Museum of Jewish art and culture in a Gilded Age mansion on Museum Mile, with 30,000 works spanning 4,000 years.

Pair it with

Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.

  1. 1Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum0.1 mi · $22

    Cool exhibit on the evolution of Olympic iconography.

  2. 2Guggenheim Museum0.2 mi · $30

    Great but small permanent collection.

  3. 3Neue Galerie0.3 mi · $28

    Saw the Klimt exhibit: large, well laid out, but light on context.

  4. 4The Metropolitan Museum of Art0.5 mi · $25

    Pay-what-you-wish for tri-state residents.

  5. 5Bard Graduate Center Gallery0.7 mi · $15

    Several floors, surprisingly large.

Also on the block, if you have time

Gilded Age Tour (0.2 mi), Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (0.4 mi, free).