June 9, 2009
Best free offerings at annual Museum Mile Festival
The annual Museum Mile Festival kicks off this evening at 6 p.m. with free entry to several cultural venues — including the Guggenheim and Met — though most have free or pay-what-you-like hours every week.
Fifth Avenue will also be closed to traffic, filled with chalk drawings, vendors and performances by the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Pablo Mayor and Folklore Urbano, Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown and others, See the block-by-block lineup.
Tonight’s museums with their normal admission and free hours:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Normally $18. As of May 15, the Guggenheim switched its pay-as-you-wish hours to every Saturday night (from Friday) from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Neue Galerie New York
Normally $15. This is the only free day of the year.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Normally a $20 suggested admission fee, (but you can always pay as little as a penny.)
Jewish Museum
Normally $12, but free every Saturday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
Normally $15. Usually has free admission during National Design Week in October.
Museum of the City of New York
Normally a suggested $10 (Its Sunday morning free entry ended April 15 when admission also rose from $9.)
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
Normally $10 admission. Regular pay-as-you-wish hour every Friday from 5 to 6 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio
Although the museum is still closed for renovations, today it will host a concert and other events.
The Goethe-Institut/German Cultural Center is not taking part this year due to fire-safety renovations at its building.
Picture credit: Museum Mile Festival 2008. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
June 9, 2009 9:30 AM in Cheap Stuff, Kids, Museums, Sightsology, Upper East Side
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