It is home to the New York Public Library, which has the largest book collection of any public library system in the country.
Broadway theater is considered the highest professional form of theater in the US. Manhattan is also home to the most extensive art collections in the world, both contemporary and classical, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Frick Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and those designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Guggenheim Museum. There are many art galleries on the Upper East Side, and downtown Chelsea has over 200.
