Today the Intrepid Museum joins 17 other museums in the New York City area for a Museum Instagram Swap, using the photo-sharing social networking app to celebrate their unique collections and spaces. The NYC #MuseumInstaSwap initiative is the first of its kind among major institutions in the United States.

Each participating museum is paired with a partner institution. Museum representatives visited their partners over the past several weeks to take photographs that resonate with their own museum’s collection and themes, with the goal that their museum’s unique focus will offer new perspectives on their partner museum. Today, February 2, all the museums are showcasing their experiences on Instagram using the hashtag #MuseumInstaSwap. The public is encouraged to follow and interact on Instagram to discover what the museums found in one another’s collections.

The museum participants are paired as follows:

• American Museum of Natural History @amnh
• The Museum of Modern Art @themuseumofmodernart

• Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum @intrepidmuseum
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum @cooperhewitt

• Museum of the City of New York @museumofcityny
• The New Museum @newmuseum

• The Museum of Arts and Design @madmuseum
• The Whitney Museum of American Art @whitneymuseum

• The Frick Collection @frickcollection
• New-York Historical Society @nyhistory

• Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts @mocada_museum
• Neue Galerie @neuegalerieny

• Queens Museum @queensmuseum
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum

• Guggenheim Museum @guggenheim
• Liberty Science Center @libertysciencecenter

• The Studio Museum in Harlem @studiomuseum
• The Jewish Museum @thejewishmuseum