March 20, 2009

Brooklyn Museum hikes suggested admission to $10

The Brooklyn Museum said today it will increase its suggested admission fee to $10 from $8 for adults and to $6 from $4 for “older adults” and students.

The price hike takes effect as of Saturday.

“We truly regret that the challenges created by the economic downturn have made it necessary to modestly increase the admissions fee at the Brooklyn Museum,” Arnold Lehman, the Director of the Brooklyn Museum, said in a statement announcing the change. “We are grateful to the Department of Cultural Affairs for its support as we move forward with this suggested admissions increase. However, the Brooklyn Museum and our colleague cultural institutions throughout New York City still represent extraordinary enriching value for all visitors, particularly in this difficult and distressing time.”

This is the museum’s first increase in its suggested admission since 2004. Admission will remain free for the Target First Saturdays, which allows the public into the museum galleries and to special events from 5 to 11 p.m. on the first Saturday of most months. The free night is sponsored by Target and the Wallace Foundation.

The museum isn’t the first cultural institution to raise fees or cancel programming this year. Prices have gone up at the zoos in Central Park, Prospect Park, Queens and on Staten Island. Flushing Town Hall has suspended its jazz trolley tours, the American Museum of Natural History ended its free jazz series and the Sports Museum closed and filed for bankruptcy.

The Brooklyn Museum is located at 200 Eastern Parkway. It’s permanent collection includes extensive Egyptian and Pacific Island artifacts, contemporary art and is home to the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Luce Visible Storage Study Center.

Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.

March 20, 2009 11:50 AM in Museums, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology

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