September 12, 2007

Late nights at New York City museums for fall 2007

Many museums stay open late at least one night a week, often in conjunction with free admission hours or live music and cocktails. The list is longer in the summer, but there are still plenty that plan to keep late hours through the fall and winter.

Here are the museums with late-closing hours listed by day of the week:

Tuesdays
Society of Illustrators - 8 p.m.
China Institute Gallery - 8 p.m.

Wednesdays
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art - 7 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - 8 p.m.

Thursdays
Jewish Museum - 8 p.m.
Museum of Arts & Design - 8 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian - 8 p.m.
Paley Center for Media - 8 p.m.
Museum of Biblical Art - 8 p.m.
China Institute Gallery - 8 p.m.

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.
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.
Met Museum - 9 p.m.
Whitney Museum of American Art - 9 p.m. (sometimes with Whitney Live)
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum - 9 p.m.
Morgan Library & Museum - 9 p.m.
Neue Galerie - 9 p.m.
Asia Society - 9 p.m.
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum - 9 p.m. on the first Friday of the month
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art - 10 p.m.

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.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium - last ticket sold at midnight
Empire State Building - last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.

Updates: This item has been changed to add the China Institute and to remove the Dahesh Museum, which closed September 16.

Image credit: Photograph from the Gerda Taro exhibition opening September 26 at the International Center of Photography. Gerda Taro's "Valencia," April 1937 Gelatin silver print.

September 12, 2007 03:18 PM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Drinkology, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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