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The Ultimate List of Nyc Museum Free Hours The Purposely Lost THE ULTIMATE LIST OF NYC MUSEUM FREE HOURS Pay As You Wish: Anytime Alice Austen House Museum* KEY American Folk Art Museum *These museums have a recommended Bronx Museum of the Arts contribution price Brooklyn Museum* On any day, at any time, these Dyckman Farmhouse museums allow you to pick your entry El Museo del Barrio* fee! Federal Hall Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College NOTES Hamilton Grange Houdini Museum of New York International Print Center New York Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art* MoMA PS1* Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology National Museum of the American Indian Queens Museum* SculptureCenter* Socrates Sculpture Park The Paley Center for Media* Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Hours are subject to change. Always confirm with the museum's website for current listings! The Purposely Lost THE ULTIMATE LIST OF NYC MUSEUM FREE HOURS Pay As You Wish: Special Mentions The Metropolitan Museum of Art; but only KEY if you're a resident of New York State or a student in New Jersey or Connecticut. *These museums have a recommended Otherwise, it'll be $25 for adults, $17 for contribution price seniors, $12 for students, and free for children under 12. These museums allow you to price your own entry, but have specific American Museum of Natural History; parameters. however, the pay what you wish program is only available at the ticket counter, not online. Bartow-Pell Mansion; the garden and NOTES grounds are free, but entrance into the mansion and carriage house carries a fee. The New York Public Library: the beautiful Stephen A. Schwarzman building offers free tours every day. Queens Botanical Garden; free museum hours from November through March Waterfront Museum; museum hours are only Thursdays 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. and Saturdays 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Hours are subject to change. Always confirm with the museum's website for current listings! The Purposely Lost THE ULTIMATE LIST OF NYC MUSEUM FREE HOURS Monthly Free Hours KEY Frick Collection; the first Friday of each *These museums have a recommended month (excluding January and September) contribution price from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Once a month, or once a week, these Museum of Chinese in America; the first museums open their doors to the city Thursday of each month for free! Neue Gallerie; the first Friday of each month from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesday Free Hours The Noguchi Museum; the first Friday of each month 9/11 Memorial Museum; 5 p.m. - close Sunday Free Hours Wednesday Free Hours New York Hall of Science; 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. Bronx Botanical Gardens; all day Wednesdays Queens Botanical Garden; April through and Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. October on Sundays from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. and Wednesdays from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Bronx Zoo; all day Queens Botanical Garden; April through October on Sundays from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Monday Free Hours and Wednesdays from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Museum at Eldridge Street; all day Frick Collection; 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. NOTES Hours are subject to change. Always confirm with the museum's website for current listings! The Purposely Lost THE ULTIMATE LIST OF NYC MUSEUM FREE HOURS Thursday Free Hours KEY *These museums have a recommended Brooklyn Children’s Museum; Thursdays from contribution price 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. and Sundays from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Once a week, these museums open their doors to the city for free! Children’s Museum of the Arts; 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Museum of Arts and Design; 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. New Museum*; 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Friday Free Hours Saturday Free Hours Brooklyn Botanic Garden; before noon Bronx Botanical Gardens; all day Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Morgan Library & Museum; 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; 6 MoMA; 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. p.m. - 9 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image; 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. Guggenheim*; 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. New York Hall of Science; 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. New York Historical Society; 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Whitney Museum of American Art; 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. NOTES Hours are subject to change. Always confirm with the museum's website for current listings!.
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