Architecture buffs will love this place. It’s small but packed with information about skyscrapers and New York’s changing visual landscape, the ‘‘first and foremost vertical metropolis." Through changing exhibitions, programs, and publications, the museum examines issues of contemporary and historic architecture through drawings, audio installations, structural models, construction photographs, and films.

Favorite feature: Polished stainless steel floors and ceiling panels create endless reflections of striking spaces.

39 Battery Place, 212-968-1961, skyscraper.org. Wednesday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m. Adults $5, students/seniors $2.50.