May 21, 2007

Late-night hours at NYC museums for summer 2007

(UPDATE: This list is now outdated. To see the most current list, see the link at the top of the New York Museums page.)

Many museums stay open late at least one night a week, often in conjunction with free admission hours, or live music and cocktails.

Here are this spring and summer's museum late-closing hours listed by day of the week:

Tuesdays
Society of Illustrators - 8 p.m.
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden - 9 p.m.

Wednesdays
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art - 7 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - 8 p.m.
Wave Hill garden – 9 p.m. in July and August only

Thursdays
Lower East Side Tenement Museum has added a 6:30 p.m. Thursday tour for summer only
Jewish Museum - 8 p.m.
Museum of Arts & Design - 8 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian - 8 p.m.
Museum of Biblical Art - 8 p.m.
MoMA - 9 p.m. (July and August only)
Dahesh Museum of Art 9 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month

Fridays
American Folk Art Museum - 7:30 p.m.
Guggenheim 7:45 p.m. (and for First Fridays 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.)
International Center of Photography - 8 p.m.
Museum of Modern Art - 8 p.m.
New-York Historical Society - 8 p.m.
Bronx Museum - 8 p.m.
Queens Museum of Art - 8 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - 8 p.m.
Rose Center for Earth and Space - 8:45 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. (with live jazz)
Met Museum - 9 p.m.
Whitney Museum of American Art - 9 p.m. (with Whitney Live in July)
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum - 9 p.m.
Morgan Library & Museum - 9 p.m.
Neue Galerie - 9 p.m.
Asia Society - 9 p.m. (except July 4 through Labor Day)
South Street Seaport Museum - 9 p.m. on the third Friday of each month
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art - 10 p.m.
(with Harlem jazz)

Saturdays
Museum of Sex - 8 p.m.
Met Museum - 9 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum - 11 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month (with bands)

A few other late-night attractions:
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum - last ticket sold at 10 p.m.
Top of the Rock - last ticket sold at 11 p.m.
Empire State Building - last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.

Update: Wave Hill, new MoMA and Tenement Museum hours were added to this list after it was originally published.

Image credit: From the Met Museum collection. "Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct ," 1818, Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (French, 1791–1824) Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange.

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