A diverse coalition of 34 nonprofit museums, performing arts centers, historical societies, zoos, and botanical gardens located in New York City. No other city in America, and few in the world, offer so great a wealth of cultural resources as New York. The members of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) are prominent among these cultural treasures. The CIG is a diverse coalition of institutions—big and small, in all five boroughs—that operate and serve as stewards of City-owned facilities and parkland.