I am a museum person. The only thing I don't like about museums is feeling pressure to see absolutely everything in a limited amount of time.
Lucky for me, my best friend is also a museum person, so we made a point of visiting at least a few museums and memorials in New York City!
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Sarah and Jordan at the Met |
One of our very first stops our first day in New York was the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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| Little did we know that the following year, we'd be cowriting a historical romance series set in the Revolutionary era. I even wrote a story set during the crossing of the Delaware and the battle of Trenton. It didn't look like this. |
We explored the European galleries, American modern artists, Egyptian artifacts, furniture and other material goods, visible storage and more, but we were unsuccessful in our quest to find a certain unknown young man in a yellow waistcoat (AKA our boyfriend). We did, however, get the closest we got to seeing Hamilton.
If you go
Go! If you're a New York resident at the time we went, the Met was free, which is a pretty sweet deal. We paid $25 for tickets that were good for two days, but we had too much to see and do (and eat) the second day. There is definitely enough to fill two days here, but you have to reeeeally be a museum person to want to do this. We didn't have our kids, so we can't vouch for how kid-friendly it is, but we didn't think they would have enjoyed the same things we did.
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| Alexander Hamilton. His name is Alexander Hamilton. |
Go! If you're a New York resident at the time we went, the Met was free, which is a pretty sweet deal. We paid $25 for tickets that were good for two days, but we had too much to see and do (and eat) the second day. There is definitely enough to fill two days here, but you have to reeeeally be a museum person to want to do this. We didn't have our kids, so we can't vouch for how kid-friendly it is, but we didn't think they would have enjoyed the same things we did.
The Met at the Cloisters
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| Cloistered courtyard at the Met at the Cloisters |
The Cloisters is another location of the Metropolitan Museum that specializes in, among other things, religious and medieval art. While the Met is in Central Park/Midtown, the Cloisters is way, way up town.
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| A path to the Cloisters |
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| Jordan and Sarah at the Cloisters. Actually in a nice dress. |
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| Unicorn tapestry at the Cloisters |
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| Artist's rendition of a *checks notes* lion? in tapestry |
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| Also a lion? Y'all... |
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| Apparently also supposed to be a lion. |
Ground Zero and the 9/11 Memorial
We didn't actually visit the museum here, but we did visit the memorial. It was very touching and solemn.
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| Roses at 9/11 Memorial |
If museums and memorials are not your thing, you might enjoy a Broadway show while in New York or other New York parks and sights.
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