January 13, 2010

Free admisison at NY Historical Society for Feb. 13 - 21

The New-York Historical Society will waive its $12 admission for a full week in February to celebrate Presidents’ Day, the museum announced Tuesday.

The free admission will run from from Saturday, Feb. 13, through Sunday, Feb. 21, thanks to a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

On Presidents’ Day, Monday Feb. 15, the museum will open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to host special events inlcuding Civil War re-enactment troops.

Current exhibitions ot the museum include “Lincoln and New York,” “FDR’s Brain Trust and the Beginning of the New Deal,” “John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy,” and “New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth-Century Portraits.”

The N-Y Historical Society is among the NYC museums that offer free admission hours each week. NYHS offers pay-what-you-wish admission every Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The New-York Historical Society is located at 170 Central Park West, just across the street from the American Museum of Natural History.

Picture source: Mathew Brady; Abraham Lincoln, 1860; Carte de visite. Courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. From the N-YHS “Lincoln and New York” exhibition.

January 13, 2010 8:51 AM in Cheap Stuff, History, Kids, Museums, Upper West Side

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