May 15, 2010
Free museum days honor Pritzker Prize, milestones
A number of New York City will be opening their doors for free for special occasions in the coming months, celebrating awards, anniversaries as well as annual festivals.
Today is the first day of the Noguchi Museum’s 25th Anniversery Weekend Celebration. Admission is free both days.
For Bronx Week, admission and tours are free at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum this weekend, May 19, 22 and 23.
Admission is free every Monday in May at the Museum of the City of New York.
Admission is free at the American Folk Art Museum on May 17 in conjunction with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and the “Down Side Up” exhibition.
On May 18, International Museum Day, (pdf) admission will be waived or reduced at a number of museums, including the Frick Collection, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Morgan Library & Museum. See more on the MommyPoppins blog.
On May 19, the New Museum will open for free in celebration of its Pritzker-Prize winning deisgn. Architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa won the award for their design of the museum on the Bowery (pictured.)
From May 26 through 28, the Whitney will stay open 24-hours-a-day and will offer overnight entry through a pay-what-you-wish admission policy.
The annual Museum Mile Festival is set for June 8, when eight museums on Fifth Avenue open their doors for free from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission will be free at the Met Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Guggenheim, the Cooper-Hewitt, Museum of the City of New York, el Museo del Barrio, the Neue Galerie and the National Academy Museum. In addition, the Goethe Institute, which has moved downtown, “will be present at its former building on 1014 Fifth Avenue, providing information about its new venues, programs, activities, and library.”
On June 12, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates its 100th birthday with free admission, music and walking tours.
Bank of America’s Museums on Us allows cardholders free admission during the first full weekend of every month at several major museums, including the Intrepid, Met Museum and the Whitney.
Smithsonain Magazine Museum Day is scheduled for Sept. 25.
Many museums will offer free admission for OpenHouse NY 2010 on Oct. 9 and 10.
Also in the fall, admission is usually free at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for National Design Week.
Picture credit: The New Museum. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Earlier: Always-free museums in New York City
Suggested-donation museums in New York City
Free museum hours day-by-day list for spring/summer
Biennial to go 24-hour non-stop for three days in May
Official websites for New York City museums
May 15, 2010 2:16 PM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Tours, Upper East Side
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