About
Wall Text
What this is
New York City has more museums than most cities in the world. The famous ones — the Met, MoMA, the Guggenheim — have marketing budgets and name recognition. They don't need help.
The ones that do: the museum in a landmarked house in the East Village that you've passed a hundred times. The collection in Queens that gets two paragraphs in the guidebook. The institution doing serious work in a borough most visitors never reach.
Wall Text covers all of them — exhibitions, hours, admission — in one place, without ranking them. The goal is simple: make it easy to know what's on, and to find something you didn't know was there.
How data is collected
Data is collected from official museum websites through a combination of automated scraping and manual curation. Exhibition listings, hours, and admission prices are pulled directly from each museum and reviewed before publication.
The scraper runs daily. Despite best efforts, information can fall behind — exhibitions end early, hours change, prices update. Always confirm directly with the museum before visiting.
Last updated: April 3, 2026
Press & contact
Wall Text is an independent project — no museum affiliations, no editorial partnerships. For press inquiries, data corrections, or partnership questions:
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What it isn't
Not a review site. Not a ticketing platform. Not affiliated with any museum. No ratings, no rankings, no editorial opinion about the work. The exhibitions speak for themselves.
By the numbers
92
institutions tracked
28
exhibitions on view
5
boroughs covered
Data sourced directly from the official websites of 92 institutions across all five boroughs.
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtUpper East Side
- Museum of Modern ArtMidtown
- Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumUpper East Side
- Whitney Museum of American ArtMeatpacking District
- Brooklyn MuseumCrown Heights
- The Frick CollectionUpper East Side
- New MuseumLower East Side
- MoMA PS1Long Island City
- The ShedHudson Yards
- American Museum of Natural HistoryUpper West Side
- Museum of the City of New YorkEast Harlem
- New-York Historical SocietyUpper West Side
- Tenement MuseumLower East Side
- Ellis Island National Museum of ImmigrationEllis Island
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumHell's Kitchen
- New York City Transit MuseumDowntown Brooklyn
- Museum of Arts and DesignColumbus Circle
- El Museo del BarrioEast Harlem
- International Center of PhotographyLower East Side
- Rubin Museum of ArtChelsea
- Morgan Library & MuseumMurray Hill
- Merchant's House MuseumNoHo
- American Folk Art MuseumLincoln Square
- Poster HouseChelsea
- Museum of Chinese in AmericaChinatown
- Hispanic Society Museum & LibraryWashington Heights
- MmuseummTribeca
- Society of IllustratorsUpper East Side
- Museum of BroadwayMidtown
- Museum of Food and DrinkDUMBO
- Wyckoff House MuseumEast Flatbush
- Old Stone HousePark Slope
- Museum of the Moving ImageAstoria
- Noguchi MuseumLong Island City
- Queens MuseumFlushing Meadows
- Louis Armstrong House MuseumCorona
- Lewis Latimer House MuseumFlushing
- Bronx Museum of the ArtsGrand Concourse
- Edgar Allan Poe CottageFordham
- Van Cortlandt House MuseumVan Cortlandt Park
- Bartow-Pell Mansion MuseumPelham Bay Park
- Historic Richmond TownRichmond Town
- Alice Austen House MuseumRosebank
- Staten Island Museum at Snug HarborSnug Harbor
- New York Botanical GardenBronx Park
- Brooklyn Botanic GardenCrown Heights
- Queens Botanical GardenFlushing
- Wave HillRiverdale
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical GardenSnug Harbor
- African Burial Ground National MonumentCivic Center
- Castle Clinton National MonumentBattery Park
- Federal Hall National MemorialFinancial District
- General Grant National MemorialRiverside Heights
- Hamilton Grange National MemorialHamilton Heights
- Stonewall National MonumentGreenwich Village
- Governors Island National MonumentGovernors Island
- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic SiteFlatiron District
- Gateway NRA — Floyd Bennett FieldMarine Park
- Gateway NRA — Jamaica Bay Wildlife RefugeBroad Channel
- Gateway NRA — Fort TildenRockaway
- Color FactorySoHo
- American Numismatic SocietyTribeca
- Americas SocietyUpper East Side
- Artists SpaceTribeca
- Carnegie HallMidtown
- Dia ChelseaChelsea
- National Jazz Museum in HarlemHarlem
- The Museum at FITChelsea
- Madame Tussauds New YorkTimes Square
- Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & GardenUpper East Side
- Municipal Art Society of New YorkMidtown
- Paley Center for MediaMidtown
- National Museum of MathematicsFlatiron
- Ukrainian MuseumEast Village
- The Jewish MuseumUpper East Side
- Museum of the American GangsterEast Village
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureHarlem
- Studio Museum in HarlemHarlem
- Arthur Kill Boat GraveyardRossville
- Garibaldi-Meucci MuseumRosebank
- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan ArtLighthouse Hill
- National Lighthouse MuseumSt. George
- Noble Maritime CollectionSnug Harbor
- LaGuardia and Wagner ArchivesLong Island City
- Harbor Defense MuseumFort Hamilton
- Waterfront MuseumRed Hook
- Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora ArtsFort Greene
- Weeksville Heritage CenterCrown Heights
- Hall of Fame for Great AmericansUniversity Heights
- Bldg 92 — Brooklyn Navy Yard MuseumBrooklyn Navy Yard
- City Island Nautical MuseumCity Island
- Maritime Industry Museum at Fort SchuylerThroggs Neck