Free Museum Round-Up
New York doesn’t have to be expensive. The city has some great bargains– if you know where to find them. At least once a month, there there are dozens of museums and galleries that are free or nearly-free, asking you to “pay what you wish.”
Always Free
- Public Art Fund
- Center for Book Arts
- The New York Public Library: Humanities and Social Sciences Library
- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Forbes Galleries
- Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Museum of American Illustration
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
- Museum of Arts and Design (6-8pm) (museum is closed for relocation and will re-open Sept 2008)
- New Museum of Contemporary Art (7-10pm)
- Children’s Museum of the Arts (4-6pm)
Friday
- American Folk Art Museum (5:30-7:30pm)
- Asia Society and Museum (6-9pm) (except from July 4th until Labor Day)
- Guggenheim Museum (5:45-7:45pm)
- International Center for Photography (5-8pm)
- Morgan Library (7-9pm)
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (4-8pm)
- Museum of Moving Image (exhibitions only) (museum is closed for renovation until early 2009)
- New York Historical Society (6-8pm)
- Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art (6-9pm)
Saturday
- New York Botanical Garden (10am-Noon)
- Brooklyn Botanical Garden (10am-Noon)
- The Jewish Museum
Sunday
- The Frick Collection (11am-1pm)
- Museum of the City of New York (10am-12pm)
Some museums offer free admission on specific days during each month:
- 1st Friday Children’s Museum of Manhattan (closed for renovation until spring 2008)
- 1st Saturday Brooklyn Museum (5-11pm)
- 1st Saturday Studio Museum of Harlem
- 1st Thursday DUMBO Brooklyn Gallery Walk
- 3rd Thursday Staten Island Children’s Museum (3-6pm)
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