I’m on a mission to visit every NYC museum: Here are the most unique and underrated — and the biggest hidden gem
NY Post
Like many people, 25-year-old Jane August needed to find something to do after she was laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I need to leave the house,” she recalled thinking. “I need to feel some cultural enrichment that is not in my bed watching Netflix.”
So now, she’s on a mission to visit every museum in New York City.
“I think living in New York City is such a privilege of having access to so much history and culture, that not taking advantage of it kind of feels like a disservice to yourself,” August told The Post.
But the go-getter didn’t want to visit just one museum in New York City — she wanted to visit them all.
Some she had never visited before, including the Statue of Liberty Museum, thinking they were overrated tourist attractions, and others she had never even heard of — the Woodside Heights Art Museum, for one.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
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