museums of nyc - 46 records

American Folk Art Museum

45 W. 53rd St. (at Fifth Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-265-1040 | Admission: $9; seniors/students, $7; under 12, free

Closed: Monday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday after 5:30pm; refreshments and music available

American Museum of Natural History

Central Park West (at W. 79th St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-769-5200 | Suggested Admission: $16; seniors/students, $12; kids 2–12, $9; under 2, free

Closed: Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Asia Society and Museum

725 Park Ave. (at E. 70th St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-288-6400 | Admission: $10; seniors, $7; students, $5; under 16, free

Closed: Monday and federal holidays

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 6 to 9pm (September to June); refreshments available

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

1040 Grand Concourse | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-681-6000 | Admission: $5; seniors/students, $3; children, free

Closed: Monday through Wednesday and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday (excluding groups); refreshments available

Bronx Zoo

Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-367-1010 | Admission: $15; seniors, $13; children 3–12, $11; under 2, free

Closed: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Wednesday (excluding special exhibitions/rides)

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

1000 Washington Ave. (bet. Crown and Montgomery Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-623-7200 | Admission: $8; seniors/students, $4; under 12, free

Closed: Monday (except federal holidays)

Specials:
Free: Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to noon (excluding major public programs)

Brooklyn Children's Museum

145 Brooklyn Ave. (at St. Marks Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-735-4400 | Admission: $7.50

Closed: Monday (June 29–September 4, 2010); Monday and Tuesday (September 5, 2010–June 28, 2011)

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Pkwy. (at Washington Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-638-5000 | Suggested Contribution: $10; seniors/students, $6; under 12, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Target-sponsored free admission: First Saturday of each month from 5 to 11pm

Children's Museum of Manhattan

212 W. 83rd St. (bet. Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-721-1223 | Admission: $10; seniors, $7; under 1, free

Closed: Monday

Specials:
Target-sponsored free admission: First Friday of each month from 5 to 8pm

The Cloisters Museum & Gardens

Fort Tryon Park, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-923-3700 | Suggested Admission: $20; seniors, $15; students, $10; under 12, free ( Admission includes same-day entry to The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Closed: Monday and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

2 E. 91st St. (at Fifth Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-849-8400 | Admission: $15; seniors/students, $10; under 12, free

Closed: New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

El Museo del Barrio

1230 Fifth Ave. (bet. E. 104th and E. 105th Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-831-7272 | Admission: $9; seniors/students, $5; members/under 12, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday and New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Free: Wednesday (for seniors)

The Frick Collection

1 E. 70th St. (at Fifth Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-288-0700 | Admission: $18; seniors, $12; students, $5; under 10 not admitted

Closed: Monday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Sunday from 11am to 1pm

Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R.

1071 Fifth Ave. (bet. E. 88th and E. 89th Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-423-3500 | Admission: $18; seniors/students, $15; under 12, free

Closed: Thursday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Saturday from 5:45 to 7:45pm; refreshments available

International Center of Photography

1133 Sixth Ave. (at W. 43rd St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-857-0000 | Admission: $12; seniors/students, $8; under 12, free

Closed: Monday and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 5 to 8pm; refreshments available

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Pier 86 (Twelfth Ave. and W. 46th St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

877-957-SHIP (7447) | Admission: $24; seniors (62+)/college students (with ID), $20; kids 3–17, $19; veterans, $17; under 2 and active-duty/retired military, free

Closed: Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Japan Society

333 E. 47th St. (bet. First and Second Aves.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-715-1255 | Admission: $10; seniors/students, $8; under 16, free

Closed: Monday

The Jewish Museum

1109 Fifth Ave. (at E. 92nd St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-423-3200 | Admission: $12; seniors, $10; students, $7.50; under 12, free

Closed: Wednesday, major Jewish holidays and New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Thanksgiving Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Saturday from 11am to 5:45pm

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

108 Orchard St. (at Delancey St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-431-0233 | Admission: $20; seniors/students, $15; under 5, free; discount rates for combination tours

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Ave. (at E. 82nd St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-535-7710 | Recommended Admission: $20; seniors, $15; students, $10; under 12, free ( Admission includes same-day entry to The Cloisters Museum & Gardens)

Closed: Monday (except Memorial Day; July 5, 2010; Labor Day; Columbus Day; and December 27, 2010)

Specials:
Open Friday and Saturday until 9pm with museum admission; rooftop martini bar open until 8pm

The Morgan Library & Museum

225 Madison Ave. (bet. E. 36th and E. 37th Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-685-0008 | Admission: $12; seniors/students/kids 12–16, $8; under 12, free

Closed: Monday and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 7 to 9pm; refreshments available; McKim rooms free Tuesday from 3 to 5pm and Sunday from 4 to 6pm

Museum of Arts and Design

2 Columbus Circle (at Eighth Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-299-7777 | Admission: $15; seniors/students, $12

Closed: Monday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Thursday from 6 to 9pm; refreshments available

Museum of Chinese in America

215 Centre St. (bet. Grand and Howard Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-619-4785 | Admission: $7; seniors/students (with ID), $4; under 12 (in groups of less than eight), free

Closed: Tuesday and Wednesday (except for pre-scheduled tours)

Specials:
Target-sponsored free admission: Thursday

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art

594 Broadway, Suite 401 (at Houston St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-254-3511 | Suggested Donation: $5; under 12, free

Closed: Monday and major holidays

Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

36 Battery Place (at 1st Place) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

646-437-4202 | Admission: $12; seniors, $10; students, $7; under 12, free

Closed: Saturday, Jewish holidays and Thanksgiving Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Wednesday from 4 to 8pm; refreshments available

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

11 W. 53rd St. (bet. Fifth and Sixth Aves.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-708-9400 | Suggested Admission: $20; seniors, $16; students, $12; 16 and under, free

Closed: Tuesday

Specials:
Target-sponsored free admission: Friday from 4 to 8pm; refreshments available

Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Ave. (bet. E. 103rd and E. 104th Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-534-1672 | Suggested Admission: $10; seniors/students, $6; families (maximum of two adults), $20; under 12, free

Closed: Monday (except holidays) and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

National Museum of the American Indian

1 Bowling Green (at Broadway and Battery Place) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-514-3700 | Admission: free

Closed: Christmas Day

New Museum

235 Bowery (bet. Stanton and Prince Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-219-1222 | Admission: $12; seniors, $10; students, $8; 18 and under, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday

Specials:
Free: Thursday from 7 to 9pm Open Friday until 9pm; refreshments available

New York Aquarium

602 Surf Ave. (at W. 8th St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-265-4740 | Admission: $13; seniors, $10; kids, $9; under 3, free

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday after 3pm

The New York Botanical Garden

Bronx River Parkway (at Fordham Road) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-817-8700 | Admission: $20; seniors/students, $18; under 12, $8; under 2, free

Closed: Monday (except federal holidays)

Specials:
Free: All day Wednesday and Saturday from 10am to noon

New York Hall of Science

47-01 111th St. (at 49th Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-699-0005 | Admission: $11; students/seniors/kids 2–17, $8

Closed: Monday and Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 2 to 5pm and Sunday from 10 to 11am from September through June

New-York Historical Society

170 Central Park West (bet. W. 76th and W. 77th Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-873-3400 | Admission: $12; seniors/educators, $9; students, $7; under 12, free

Closed: Monday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 6 to 8pm

New York Transit Museum

Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-694-1600 | Admission: $5; seniors (62+)/kids 3–17, $3; members, free

Closed: Monday and major holidays

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Wednesday (for seniors)

The Noguchi Museum

9-01 33rd Road (bet. Vernon Blvd. and 10th St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-204-7088 | Admission: $10; seniors/students, $5; under 12, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: First Friday of each month

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

22-25 Jackson Ave. (at 46th Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-784-2084 | Admission: $5; seniors/students, $2

Closed: Tuesday and Wednesday and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Free: With Museum of Modern Art admission ticket dated within 30 days Saturday Warm Up music events until 9pm: admission, $10; refreshments available

Queens Museum of Art

49th Ave. and 111th St. | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-592-9700 | Suggested Donation: $5; seniors/students/kids, $2.50; under 5, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday

Rubin Museum of Art

150 W. 17th St. (bet. Sixth and Seventh Aves.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-620-5000 | Admission: $10; seniors/high school students/artists, $7; college students, $2; under 12, free

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 7 to 10pm; refreshments available; seniors free first Monday of each month

The Skyscraper Museum

39 Battery Place (at West St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-968-1961 | Admission: $5; seniors/students, $2.50

Closed: Monday and Tuesday

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

1000 Richmond Terrace (at Tysen St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-448-2500 | Admission for galleries and garden tours: $6; seniors/students/members, $5; under 12, $3; under 3, free

Closed: Monday (December through April)

South Street Seaport Museum

12 Fulton St. (bet. Front and South Sts.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-748-8725 | Admission: $12; seniors/students, $10; kids 5–12, $8; under 5, free

Closed: Tuesday through Thursday (January through March); Monday (April through December)

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Third Friday of each month from 5 to 9pm; refreshments available

Staten Island Museum

75 Stuyvesant Place (at Wall St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-727-1135 | Admission: $2; seniors/students, $1; members/under 12, free

Closed: Monday (on federal holidays) and New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Tuesday and Friday from noon to 2pm (lunchtime)

Statue of Liberty National Monument | Ellis Island Immigration Museum

Liberty Island | Ellis Island | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-363-3180 | Admission: free, except ferry fees ($12; seniors, $10; kids 4–12, $5) and an optional $3 crown-access fee

Closed: Christmas Day

The Studio Museum in Harlem

144 W. 125th St. (bet. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Malcolm X Blvds.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-864-4500 | Admission: $7; seniors/students, $3; under 12, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday and federal holidays

Specials:
Target-sponsored free admission: Sunday

Wave Hill

W. 249th St. (at Independence Ave.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

718-549-3200 | Admission: $8; seniors/students, $4; kids 6 and older, $2; under 6, free

Closed: Monday (except federal holidays)

Specials:
Free: Tuesday and Saturday from 9am to noon (May through June and September through October); all day Tuesday (off-peak months)

Whitney Museum of American Art

945 Madison Ave. (at E. 75th St.) | try to map it → | try to link to it →

212-570-3600 | Admission: $15; seniors/students, $10; under 11, free

Closed: Monday and Tuesday

Specials:
Pay-what-you-wish: Friday from 6 to 9pm; refreshments available; occasional live music