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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a modern and contemporary American art museum located in the and neighborhoods of in .
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in New York City
  • Also known as: “The Whitney Museum”, “Whitney”, “Whitney Museum”, and “Whitney Studio Club”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Central Park and Frick Collection.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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The is an art museum on the of in . It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Whitney Museum of American Art.

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The is a natural history museum on the of in . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from , the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Whitney Museum of American Art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Upper East Side and Lenox Hill.

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The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood on the of in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

Neighborhood
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is the name of both a and the surrounding neighborhood on the of in . is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, between West 65th and 66th streets.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Latitude
40.77316° or 40° 46′ 23″ north
Longitude
-73.96375° or 73° 57′ 50″ west
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q2FP+7F
Geo­Names ID
5144428
Wiki­data ID
Q639791
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Whitney Museum of American Art” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف ويتني للفن الأمريكي”
  • Armenian: “Ամերիկյան արվեստի Ուիթնի թանգարան”
  • Asturian: “Muséu Whitney d’Arte Estauxunidense”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй амэрыканскага мастацтва Ўітні”
  • Catalan: “Museu Whitney d’Art Americà”
  • Chinese: “惠特尼美国艺术博物馆”
  • Chinese: “惠特尼美术馆”
  • Chinese: “惠特尼美術館”
  • Czech: “Muzeum amerického umění Whitneyové”
  • Danish: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Dutch: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف ويتنى للفن الامريكى”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Whitney de Usona Arto”
  • Finnish: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • French: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Georgian: “უიტნის ამერიკული ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Γουίτνεϊ Αμερικανικής Τέχνης”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון ויטני לאמנות אמריקאית”
  • Hungarian: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Hungarian: “Whitney Múzeum”
  • Indonesian: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Italian: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Japanese: “ホイットニー美術館”
  • Korean: “휘트니 미술관”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Norwegian: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Persian: “موزه ویتنی هنر آمریکایی”
  • Polish: “The Whitney Museum”
  • Polish: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Polish: “Whitney”
  • Polish: “WMAA”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Whitney de Arte Americana”
  • Portuguese: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Russian: “Музей американского искусства Уитни”
  • Slovak: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej sodobne umetnosti Whitney”
  • Slovenian: “Whitney”
  • Spanish: “Museo Whitney de Arte Estadounidense”
  • Swedish: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Turkish: “Whitney Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Whitney Museum of American Art”
  • Ukrainian: “Whitney”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей американського мистецтва Вітні”
  • Uzbek: “Whitney muzey”

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