April 30, 2009
Museums open late in NYC for spring/summer 2009
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 the museums with late-closing hours listed by day of the week:
Mondays
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal - 8 p.m. (always free)
Starting May 12: Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 10 p.m., with last admission at 9 p.m. ($24.50)
Tuesdays
Society of Illustrators - 8 p.m. (always free)
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal - 8 p.m. (always free)
China Institute Gallery - 8 p.m. (free 6-8 p.m.)
Starting May 12: Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 10 p.m., with last admission at 9 p.m. ($24.50)
Wednesdays
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art - 7 p.m. ($10)
Museum of Jewish Heritage - 8 p.m. ($12)
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal - 8 p.m. (always free)
Gallery at the Science, Industry and Business Library - 8 p.m. (always free)
Starting May 12: Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 10 p.m., with last admission at 9 p.m. ($24.50)
Thursdays
Tenement Museum - last tour departs 7:15 p.m., until Sept. 3 ($17)
National Museum of the American Indian - 8 p.m. (always free)
Jewish Museum - 8 p.m. ($12)
Paley Center for Media - 8 p.m. ($10)
Waterfront Museum - 8 p.m. (always free, but donations requested)
Museum of Biblical Art - 8 p.m. (recommended admission of $7)
Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - 8 p.m. (always free)
Gallery at the Science, Industry and Business Library - 8 p.m. (always free)
China Institute Gallery - 8 p.m. (free 6-8 p.m.)
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal - 8 p.m. (always free)
Museum of Arts & Design - 9 p.m. (pay-what-you-wish from 6-9 p.m.)
New Museum - 9 p.m. (free 7-9 p.m.)
Starting May 12: Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 10 p.m., with last admission at 9 p.m. ($24.50)
Fridays
American Folk Art Museum - 7:30 p.m. with free music (free 5:30-7:30 p.m.)
Guggenheim 7:45 p.m. (Pay what you wish 5:45-7:45 p.m. but only until May 8; Beginning Friday, May 15 the museum will close at 5:45 p.m. on Fridays.)
International Center of Photography - 8 p.m. (Voluntary contribution from 5–8 p.m.)
Museum of Modern Art - 8 p.m. (free 4-8 p.m.)
New-York Historical Society - 8 p.m. (free 6-8 p.m.; but all galleries closed July 15 to Sept.15)
Bronx Museum - 8 p.m. (free all day)
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal - 8 p.m. (always free)
New Museum - 9 p.m. ($12)
Met Museum - 9 p.m., and rooftop martini bar open until 8 p.m. ($20 suggested admission)
Whitney Museum of American Art - 9 p.m. (pay-what-you-wish 6–9 p.m., sometimes with Whitney Live music)
Morgan Library & Museum - 9 p.m. (free 7-9 p.m.)
Asia Society - 9 p.m. (free 6- 9, except July 4 through Labor Day)
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum - 9 p.m. on the first Friday of the month ($5)
South Street Seaport Museum - 9 p.m. on third Friday of each month (free 5-9 p.m.)
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art - 10 p.m. (free 7-10 p.m.)
Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 9 p.m., with last admission at 8 p.m. And starting May 12, open until midnight with last admission at 11 p.m. ($24.50)
Rose Center at the American Museum of Natiral History- occasional One Step Beyond dance party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. ($26.50)
Saturdays
Starting May 15: Guggenheim 7:45 p.m. (Pay what you wish 5:15-7:45 p.m.)
Museum of Sex - 8 p.m. ($14.50)
Met Museum - 9 p.m., with the rooftop martini bar open until 8 p.m. ($20 suggested admission)
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center - 9 p.m. for Warm Up music events ($10)
Brooklyn Museum - 11 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month (free 5-11)
Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex 9 p.m., with last admission at 8 p.m.. And starting May 12, open until midnight with last admission at 11 p.m. ($24.50)
Sundays
Starting May 12: Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Annex - 10 p.m., with last admission at 9 p.m. (24.50)
Other late-night attractions:
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum - last ticket sold at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays ($28 with online discount)
Top of the Rock - last elevator goes up at 11 p.m. ($18 with online discount)
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium - last ticket sold at midnight ($26.95)
Empire State Building - last elevator up at 1:15 a.m. ($18.45)
Updates: The Tenement Museum was added to the story after it was originally published - and then removed in August when late Thursdays were suspended early. The Jewish Museum changed its hours as of July 1. And the China Institute Gallery dropped it’s late/free schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the summer.
Image credit: Provided by Museum of Modern Art
Oskar Schlemmer
Bauhaus Stairway, 1932
63 7/8 × 45” (162.3 × 114.3 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip Johnson
April 30, 2009 11:14 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Drinkology, History, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Romance, Sightsology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side
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