There is just something special about the culture of New York. Some people call it the New York state of mind. Even auto insurance New York is something of a special topic. When you can go down to the nearest subway, hop in, then walk right back to the surface in a whole different part of the city, you know you’re in a special kind of place. And how many museums does New York even have, anyway?
Just from an art museum standpoint, New York is a step above the competition. They have the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Art Museum (which is commonly just referred to as “The Met”), and the Museum of Modern Art (which is often affectionately shortened to “MoMA”). They even have the New Museum, which may or may not have to change its name after it exists for awhile. And those are just the major art museums you could see around the New York area. Who knows how many little boutiques might let you discover the 21st century’s answer to Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol?
And of course, the museums go beyond just art. There is probably a museum dedicated to every conceivable thing known to man kind. There is the American Indian Museum, dedicated to the contributions of the Native Americans to our modern lives (and if you want to see one major contribution, just look down at the ground). Then, there is the American Museum of Natural History, where you can find all sorts of interesting exhibits about how the world’s systems work. There is even a museum dedicated exclusively to sex. Apparently, between 1862 and 1984, there were more than a dozen sex patents issued. Who knew?