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Afternoon Tea Review

Ok, so the New Museum is not my favorite museum, but Georgia gave me a heads up about the afternoon tea there so we met up to give it a try.

Afternoon Tea Review // New Museum

Travel

My friend Georgia, who I’ve known since 5th grade, moved to Jacksonville, Florida about four years ago. I hadn’t seen her over a year, so I was overdue for a visit.

Jacksonville // The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

Refined Experience

I did it. I went to Brooklyn. More specifically, the Brooklyn Museum. It took me forever to get out there, so I missed the guided public tour.

Brooklyn Museum

Refined Experience

What could be a more perfect place to house the New York Transit Museum than an actual (albeit, inactive) subway station?

New York Transit Museum

Refined Experience

The American Museum of Natural History is a place where you can go every day for a week and find something new each time.

American Museum of Natural History

Refined Experience

I didn’t know that the Neue of Neue Galerie was pronounced “Noy-ah” until I went on the tour. Just a couple of block up from The Met, is Neue Galerie (“new gallery”), a museum for early 20th century Austrian and German art.

Neue Galerie & Cafe Sabarsky

Rubin Museum of Art is right in my neighborhood, just a couple of blocks away from my apartment. It’s on the same block as Haven’s Kitchen on 17th Street between 6th and 7th Ave.

Rubin Museum of Art

Refined Experience

I’ve gone past the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green so many times and I didn’t realize until recently that it houses The National Museum of the American Indian.

U.S. Custom House & The National Museum of the American Indian

Refined Experience

Last summer, I went on a tour of the Tenement Museum and since then, have been wanting to go back to see all the tours offered.

Tenement Museum

Refined Experience

The first thing I learned on my tour of the Museum of Arts & Design was that it used to be called the the American Craft Museum before it moved to Columbus Circle.

Museum of Arts & Design

Refined Experience

A trip to The Cloisters is a bit of a trek since it’s so far uptown. It’s worth a visit if you have never been, or if it’s been ages, as it had been for me.

The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Refined Experience

Last week, a friend had taken a photo of herself on Instagram inside Yayoi Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art.