http://www.ny.com/museums/free.html
PAY AS YOU WISH TIMES:
Tuesdays
Brooklyn Botanic Garden all day
Cooper-Hewitt from 5-9pm
Jewish Museum from 5-8pm
Wave Hill all day
Wednesdays
Bronx Museum of the Arts all day
Children’s Museum of the Arts from 5-7pm
Thursdays
American Craft Museum from 6-8pm
New Museum of Contemporary Artfrom 6-8pm
Fridays
Asia Society from 6-9pm
ICP from 5-8pm
MOMA from 4:30-8:15pm
Saturdays
Brooklyn Botanic Garden from 10am-noon
Studio Museum in Harlem first Sat. of each month
Free Museums in New York City
Whether or not you are a starving artist, you can see art for FREE at museums that are always free, museums that have suggested contributions, and museums that have special free hours. Note: Many museums support themselves on the donations received by visitors; if you can’t afford to pay the suggested contribution, a smaller donation can still make a difference.
Free Every Day:
- American Numismatic Society
- Artists Space
- Carnegie Hall/Rose Museum
- Dahesh Museum
- The Drawing Center
- Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
- Franklin Furnace
- Goethe House German Cultural Center
- Guggenheim Museum Soho
- The Hispanic Society of America
- The Municipal Art Society
- Museum of American Folk Art
- National Museum of the American Indian
- New York City Police Museum
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center
- Taipei Gallery
- Whitney Museum at Philip Morris
Suggested Contribution
- American Museum of Natural History
- The Brooklyn Children’s Museum
- The Brooklyn Museum of Art
- The Cloisters
- Dia Center for the Arts
- Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
- El Museo del Barrio
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Museum of the City of New York
- New York City Fire Museum
- New-York Historical Society
- P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
- Pierpont Morgan Library
- Queens Museum of Art
- Seaman’s Church Institute
- Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
