Where to Go in New York?
If you’re up for an adventure, try looking at this guide to choose some famous landmarks like The Statue of Liberty or the Metropolitan Museum!
Statue of Liberty
Can you guess what’s 305 feet tall, was established on October 28, 1886, and sits on an 11-pointed star? If you answered the Statue of Liberty, you’re correct! The Statue of Liberty, a statue standing high in the sky next to Manhattan, is one of my choices of must-sees in New York City. I chose it because it stands for freedom and liberty in the U.S.A. and is well known. Even though we only climbed up to the pedestal, the view of not only Manhattan, but Brooklyn and Queens was amazing. Although, if you can't stand really long lines, I suggest you have second thoughts on going. Still, I thought it was worth it.There was also a museum inside the Statue of Liberty, which I suggest you go to if you climb it. Beware though, different websites may give different prices, so call if you want to know the true price. Also, on Ellis Island, the place where immigrants came to the U.S. centuries ago, there’s a museum telling how immigrants came to the U.S., which I propose you visit. The Statue of Liberty was one of my favorite sights because I got to see a wonderful view of the city and was taken back in time to a memorable moment of our nation’s history.
The Modern Museum of Art (MOMA)
The Modern Museum of Art is another place I suggest you visit in Manhattan. With over 200,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and more, it's certainly big! The paintings have a vast time scale, from the 1880s to the present. I think MOMA is a must see because of all its fascinating, influential, and famous works. When we went there, it took us all day to see the art, so I recommend second thoughts about going there if you don't want to spend all day in a museum. My favorite artwork was The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. The Starry Night is a painting of a village next to a mountain under a crescent moon. I like it because it has a lot of detail, it’s not abstract like modern art, and the small hundreds of joined lines in the sky add something special to it. The vivid colors also make the painting unique and interesting.
The Guggenheim Museum
Like a modern treat?
The Guggenheim Museum is an art museum with paintings and sculptures from the mid-1900s to the present next to Central Park. With still lifes to purple puffs surrounding a pole, the Guggenheim’s art can be unusual and interesting. Personally, some of the modern art was weird to me, but I guess people like to make unusual paintings these days. For example, Vasily Kandinsky’s Composition 8 made in 1923 looks like graffiti painted on a canvas. It has circles, lines, and stuff I can’t even describe: shapes that look like a dartboard, a swan’s beak, a tic-tac-toe board, an electric pole, half-olympic rings, the moon in front of the sun, a boomerang with spikes on it, a flying squirrel, triangles, clouds, shapes, a clown nose, squiggly lines.
9/11 Memorial and Museum
The 9/11 Memorial and Museum focuses on what happened during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, people who died in the attacks, parts of the towers, and more. It costs $29 for adults, free for children under 6, and you can look at the rest of the cost board online. With over 110,000 square feet to visit, there is plenty of stuff to see. And it's not just over 70,000 artifacts, there are videos, interactive technology, historical records, images, and stories. My family and I saw really cool things, like a really tall column from one of the towers that survived the attacks, two giant square holes outside the museum( which I think was where the buildings originally stood) and more. The artifacts were cool as well, from coins to a shoe to a fire truck, there are a lot of artifacts! However, if you aren't particularly interested in artifacts and pictures, this museum might not be the right place for you.
The Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum is the largest museum in the U.S. and the fourth largest museum in the world with 2.2 million square feet and over 1.5 million objects including art, artifacts, sculptures, and historical items. So if you hate walking extremely long distances, the MET might not be your kind of place to visit, but if you are willing to spend a good chunk of your day at a museum to see all the amazing things, continue reading. There is a wide variety of “parts” of the museum you can visit. For example, you can visit the Roman and Greek area, the Egyptian area, Medieval art area, The American wing, The Asian wing, and so much more!
Other notable places: Central Park and Times Square, both maybe even more popular than our previous options!
