25 West 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues

Americans watch a lot of television, but this museum is one of the few places where television is treated as a cultural phenomenon worthy of recording, presenting, and studying. With listening stations, screening rooms, nearly one hundred television consoles, and over 100,000 archived television and radio shows, this is the United States’ preeminent library of pop culture audiovisual content. Whether you’re looking for Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl commercial or Orson Welles’ original War of the Worlds radio broadcast, you’ll find it here.