NYC Museum Rush

On the last full day of our tour through Manhattan (April 9), we had a crowded itinerary, although it contained only three planned destinations: the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Circle Line's Harbor Lights evening cruise. That's a shame, in retrospect, because I found both museums to be extraordinarily interesting. You don't really want to walk through either of them without giving yourself plenty of time to take in the enormous quantity and quality of exhibits. But we did, nevertheless, rush through them, at least providing us with some ideas about how better to spend our time in NYC the next time we're there. Not only didn't we have adequate time to explore the places we visited, but we also missed out completely on a plethora of other museums, most notably the Museum of Modern Art.

Here are some photos from the Museum of Natural History (the first four) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the remainder):