The New York City Museum School (NYCMS) is a public school for grades 9–12 on West 17th Street in

Chelsea, Manhattan Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern b ...

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, United States. It shares a building with the

New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies The New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies is a secondary school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It serves students in grades 6–12 and was described as one of the best schools in Manhattan in 2010 by the ...

. The school's curriculum requires weekly visits to museums all over New York City, where an NYCMS teacher conducts class in conjunction with Museum staff, and it has been a model for similar programs in other cities. These visits supplement conventional classes held inside the school. NYCMS provides education to a heterogeneous group of students from a diverse community. The museum opened in September 1994 as a fully accredited school and was co-founded by Sonnet Takahisa, staff member at the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

with whom the school partnered. The

Children's Museum of Manhattan The Children’s Museum of Manhattan is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded by Bette Korman, under the name GAME (Growth Through Art and Museum Experience), in 1973. The museum became the Children’s Muse ...

was also among its founding partners.

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* Museum organizations Public high schools in Manhattan Museum education Chelsea, Manhattan {{Manhattan-school-stub