New York City

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Cultural institutions

New York is a city of great museums with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences. There are also many smaller specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrio with a focus on Latin American cultures to the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design. A number of the city's museums are located along the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art - Museum of Modern Art - Guggenheim Museum - American Museum of Natural History - Hayden Planetarium - El Museo del Barrio - Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design - Museum Mile - Fifth Avenue

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In addition to these museums, the city is also home to a vast array of spaces for opera, symphony, and dance performances. The largest of these is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is actually a complex of buildings housing 12 separate companies, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Other notable performance halls include Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Opera - Symphony - Dance - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - New York Philharmonic - Metropolitan Opera - New York City Opera - New York City Ballet - Jazz at Lincoln Center - Carnegie Hall - Radio City Music Hall - Brooklyn Academy of Music

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