January 03, 2005
Free hours at New York museums and gardens
Update: Click the link for NewYorkology’s most recent list of free museum hours for New York, updated in December 2006.
It's not very well publicized -- for reasons you can guess -- but many New York museums and gardens are open for free for at least a few hours each week, or some, for entire months each year. Seeing as how the Met Museum has raised its "suggested" admission price this month, I thought it high time to post a current list of spots with special free hours.
First though, here are the institutions that have "suggested" admission prices, meaning that if you are so inclined you can say "I'd like to pay you a whole lotta nothing," and get in for free.
"Suggested admission" museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Cloisters
American Museum of Natural History
Brooklyn Museum
Museum of the City of New York
New York City Police Museum
New York City Fire Museum
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Studio Museum in Harlem
Museums with free times
Museum of Modern Art - Friday 4 to 8 p.m.
American Museum of the Moving Image - Friday 4 to 8 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - Wednesday 4 to 8 p.m.
New York Hall of Science in Queens – Friday 2 to 5 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio – Thursday 4 to 8 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum - all day the first Saturday of each month
New York Botanical Garden - all day Wednesday; and Saturday 10 a.m. to noon
Wave Hill - all day Tuesday; Saturday 9 a.m. to noon; plus every day in December, January and February.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden - all day Tuesday; Saturday 10 a.m. to noon; plus all day every weekday from mid-November to March 1
Museums with "suggested donations hours" (aka free)
Whitney Museum of American Art - Friday 6 to 9 p.m.
Bronx Zoo - all day Wednesday
Jewish Museum - Thursday 5 to 8 p.m.
Museum of Arts & Design – Thursday 6 to 8 p.m.
Other museum discounts
New Museum of Contemporary Art – half-price ($3 instead of $6) on Thursday 6 to 8 p.m.
Guggenheim – during the Aztec show, bring a friend on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. and one of you gets in free
Update:Admission to the "Ashes and Snow" exhibit at the Nomadic Museum (normally $12,) is now "pay-as-you-wish" on Tuesday until 3 p.m. The museum is open on the Hudson River near 14th Street through June 6, 2005.
Earlier: Late Fridays at Manhattan museums
January 3, 2005 08:09 AM in Cheap Stuff, Museums, Sightsology
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