How can you not visit a museum when you're in New York? Visit these three museums to learn about New York's past and present.

Museums are the eyes of a city. From them, you can see the soul of the city. To understand a city, you should go to its museum. Exquisite paintings, meticulous statues, abstract installation art... When you encounter these in a city museum, the past and present of the city will be vividly displayed before your eyes. The same goes for New York! How can you not visit a museum? Don't look at New York's flashy and noisy appearance. In fact, his heart has always been a cultural person with a deep historical background. Follow my footsteps to these three museums to learn about New York's past and present! Metropolitan Museum of Art If you come to New York, if you haven't been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you will think about it afterwards, you will definitely regret it! This is one of the world's four major museums, along with the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, France, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia! The interior design of the Metropolitan Museum of Art mimics the historical styles of different periods, from the ancient Roman style of the 1st century to the modern American style. The collections in the museum are all-encompassing. This is not only a gathering place for art, but also a gathering place for history and culture. When you go to more and more places, every time you walk into this comprehensive museum, there is a wonderful illusion of time and space interlacing and blending: one second before you are in Egypt, the next second you will be in India; one second before you are in the Shang Dynasty in China, the next second is the European Renaissance; one second before the Khmer dynasty was just invaded by the Siamese army, the next second the Inca civilization has been extinct by Spanish colonists... There is a feeling of concentrated screening of global travel memories. American Museum of Natural History Located in Washington, D.C., as the world's largest museum system: one of the sixteen museums under the Smithsonian Museum, the National Museum of Natural History in the United States opened in 1910, and the American Museum of Natural History is the world's largest natural history museum. Here, the collections of paleontology and anthropology rank first among museums around the world, with a large number of fossils, dinosaurs, birds, Indian and Eskimo replicas. And this is also the shooting location of the movie "Night at the Museum 1"! Guggenheim Museum It is one of the most famous private museums in the world. The New York branch is the headquarters, and there are four branches around the world. Many people come here to see the architectural style of this museum! The white spiral structure is unique, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the most famous architect of the 20th century in the United States. It is better to say that this pure white building is full of artworks, but this building itself is a perfect artwork. The Guggenheim Museum, located opposite Central Park, looks like a white headband wrapped around the columnar direction from the outside. Every inch of space in the museum is filled with a cold sense of transparency, which makes the characteristics of all artworks more prominent, and it is very suitable for a weekend trip.