New York's 250 museums cater to every specialty and every taste. It has museums in such fields as natural history, broadcasting, fire-fighting, crafts, and ethnic cultures. As the world's greatest art center, New York City has more than 400 galleries and is a mecca for artists, art dealers, and collectors. Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th Streets is the most important locale for galleries, but dozens of others are located in SoHo (south of Houston Street) and adjoining neighborhoods.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and located in Central Park, contains nearly 3 million objects in every known artistic medium, representing cultures from every part of the world, from ancient times to the present. Its permanent collections are so vast that its 300 galleries and 32 acres of floor space can display only one-fifth of the museum's total holdings at any one time. It is the third largest art museum in the world, after the British Museum in London, England, and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum, specializes in medieval art and is located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan.
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