Fodor's Expert Review The Hispanic Society of America Museum & Library

This is the best collection of Hispanic and Spanish art outside El Prado in Madrid, with more than 18,000 works in paintings, sculptures, textiles, manuscripts, music, and decorative arts dating from the Paleolithic through the 20th century. On the first floor in the Sala Bancaja, stand in the middle and admire the 13 massive, colorful paintings, capturing everything from Holy Week penitents to fishermen in Catalonia. A smaller room houses intricately carved marble pieces from bishops' tombs. Upstairs, there's a room filled with antique iron doorknockers, two rooms of earthenware from Spain and Mexico, and notable pieces by Goya, El Greco, Murillo, Velázquez, and Zurbarán. The entrance is on Broadway, between 155th and 156th Streets, up the steps to the left.