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Frick Collection vs Tenement Museum

Both Tenement Museum and Frick Collection are rated very highly by travel writers. Overall, Frick Collection ranks slightly higher than Tenement Museum. Frick Collection comes in at 98 with accolades from 12 sources like Not For Tourists, Concierge and The Telegraph.

Frick Collection
Frick Collection
9 / 10
1 E. 70th St., New York, NY 10021
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Fodor's Fodor's
"Everything here is a highlight. The Portico Gallery, an enclosed portico along the building's 5th Avenue garden, houses the museum's growing collection of sculpture." Full review
Concierge Concierge
"A real find among the city's museums, this collection housed in an exquisite Beaux Arts mansion on the Upper East Side represents the personal holdings of Henry Clay Frick."
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This spectacular art collection sits in a mansion built by prickly steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, one of the many such residences that made up Millionaires’ Row." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"The opulent residence that houses a private collection of great masters (from the 14th through the 19th centuries) was originally built for industrialist Henry Clay Frick." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
Editor's Pick
"Housed in an exquisite Beaux Arts mansion on the Upper East Side represents the personal holdings of Henry Clay Frick." Full review
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Tenement Museum
Tenement Museum
9 / 10
103 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City, NY 10002
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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This museum puts the neighborhood’s heartbreaking but inspiring heritage on full display in three recreations of turn-of-the-20th-century tenements." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Searching for a place to house a museum honoring American immigrants, Ruth Abram unearthed 97 Orchard Street." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"This fascinating museum—actually a series of restored tenement apartments at 97 Orchard Street—is accessible only by guided tour." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
"Offers a glimpse of what life in the turn-of-the-20th-century Lower East Side was like for those who lived there." Full review
Not For Tourists Not For Tourists
"Great illustration of turn-of-the-century (20th, that is) life."
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