How to get to the museums of New York for free

The famous Museum of Natural History in New York. Photo: depositphotos.com

The collections of New York's best museums can be enjoyed for free if you know the appearances and passwords. More precisely, the required dates and times when museums do not charge money for admission. ForumDaily has compiled a schedule until the end of the year of when and where to go to get aesthetic pleasure from cultural wealth without damaging your wallet.

Modern Art Museum

It is included in the list of the most famous museums of modern art. Consists of six floors. Here you can see masterpieces of such famous artists as Gauguin, Monet, Modigliani, Kandinsky, etc. It is in this museum that the best collection of works by the famous Picasso is presented. Among the museum's gems are "White on White" by Kazimir Malevich, "Starry Night" by Van Gogh and "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali.

Address: Museum of Modern Art / 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019

Openning time: Monday-Thursday 10.30-17.30, Friday 10.30-20.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.30-17.30

Regular visit price: adults - $25 for everyone, seniors (65 years and older with ID) - $18, students with ID - $14, children under 16 - free

Free entrance for all: every Friday 16.00-20.00

Museum of Art and Design

Contemporary art objects created from clay, wood, glass, paper, fabric and metal are exhibited here. Here you can see everything from teapots to antique stoves, from homemade rocking chairs to modern American Indian pottery.

Address: Museum of arts and design / 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019

Openning time: Tuesday-Wednesday 10.00-18.00, Thursday-Friday 10.00-21.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $16, seniors - $14, students - $12, children under 18 - free.

Free entrance for all: every thursday xnumx-xnumx

Chinese Museum in America

The museum tells the story of Sino-American relations that go back more than 150 years. One of the pages is about Chinese immigration to America in the 1960s.

Address: Museum of Chinese in America / 215 Center St, New York, NY 10013

Openning time: Tuesday-Wednesday 11.00-18.00, Thursday 11.00-21.00, Friday-Sunday 11.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $10, pensioners and students with ID - $5, children under 12 years old - free.

Free entrance for all: the first Thursday of each month 11.00-21.00, except for major holidays

Brooklyn Museum

Among the exhibits of this museum are: ancient Egyptian objects, works of French impressionists, various sculptures of the 19-20 centuries. The museum also features an Egyptian collection, which is rightfully included in the list of the best. In addition, there are halls where visitors can see the reproduced atmosphere of residential premises of various historical eras.

Address: Brooklyn museum / 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Openning time: Wednesday 11.00-18.00, Thursday 11.00-22.00, Friday-Sunday 11.00-18.00. First Saturday of each month (except September) 11.00-23.00

Regular visit price: adults - $16, students with a valid ID - $10, seniors (62 years and older) - $10, children under 19 - free.

Free entrance for all: first saturday of every month 17.00-23.00

The Children's Museum of Manhattan

The museum will appeal to all its little visitors. Here you can do everything that children love so much - run, climb and make noise. Here you can explore the world around you: build houses, ride a car. You can also put on your own puppet show or play firefighters, drivers and passengers, sellers and buyers.

Address: Children's Museum of Manhattan / 212 W 83rd St, New York, NY 100242

Openning time: Tuesday-Friday 10.00-17.00, Saturday 10.00-19.00, Sunday 10.00-17.00

Regular visit price: children from 1 year and adults - $12, senior citizens (65 years and older) - $8, children under 1 year - free

Free entrance for all: first Friday of every month 17.00-20.00

Brooklyn Children's Museum

Here you can try to touch the starfish and hedgehogs in the “touching pool”, visit the shops in mini-copies of real American streets, build cardboard game houses or find any other activity to your liking.

Address: Brooklyn Children's Museum / 145 Brooklyn Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213

Openning time: Tuesday-Wednesday 10.00-17.00, Thursday 10.00-18.00, Friday-Sunday 10.00-17.00

Regular visit price - $11 for everyone, children under 1 year old are free

Free entrance for all: every thursday xnumx-xnumx

Staten Island Children's Museum

The museum awakens the spirit of the researcher thanks to numerous children's workshops that develop creative skills in the child. The museum also has a costume theater.

Address: Staten Island Children's Museum / 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301

Openning time: Tuesday-Friday 11.00-17.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.00-17.00

Regular visit price - $8 for everyone, children under 1 year old are free

Free entry:

• for everyone - every Wednesday 15.00-17.00
• for pensioners - free on Wednesdays all day

El Museo del Barrio

The exhibition of this museum represents more than eight thousand works by artists from the Caribbean and Latin America. The museum's collection covers exhibits of different chronological layers - from native products to the presentation of modern technical capabilities.

Address: El museo del barrio / 1230 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029

Openning time: Tuesday-Saturday 11.00-18.00, Sunday 12.00-17.00

Regular visit price: adults - $9, students and seniors - $5, children under 12 - free.

Free entry:

• for everyone - the third Saturday of every month
• for pensioners - on Wednesdays all day

Frick Collection

The collection of paintings by American magnate Henry Frick, whose main business was the production of steel, consists of many canvases painted by famous artists from around the world. Among them: Velázquez, Cimabue, Titian, Boucher, Chardin, Reisdal and Rembrandt.

The collection is located in his mansion, in nineteen spacious and bright rooms. In addition, the museum has a huge library that Frick collected throughout his life - it deserves special attention. Visitors will also be able to enjoy the beautiful garden located in the courtyard.

Address: Frick Collection / 1 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021

Openning time: Tuesday-Saturday 10.00-18.00, Sunday 11.00-17.00

Regular visit price: adults - $20, seniors - $15, students - $10, children under 10 - free.

Free entrance for all: every sunday with 11.00-13.00

New Museum of Modern Art

The museum is located in an unusual building built by Japanese architects, and is a pile of huge cubes of glass and metal. The exposition of the museum also does not have a special sequence. There are rooms with furniture by modern designers, which are transferred to the exhibition of black and white photographs and so on. Together with all this, you can also see the works of Van Gogh, Picasso and Monet.

Address: New museum of contemporary art / 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

Openning time: Wednesday 11.00-18.00, Thursday 11.30-21.00, Friday-Sunday 11.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $16, pensioners - $14, students - $10, children under 14 - free

Free entrance for all: every thursday xnumx-xnumx

Guggenheim Museum

Currently, the Guggenheim Museum is the world's largest collection of canvases 19-20-th century. Here are paintings of such famous artists as Van Gogh, Rousseau, Goncharov, Gogen, Kandinsky, Picasso. There are more than six thousand paintings in the museum.

Address: Guggenheim Museum / 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128

Openning time: Monday-Wednesday, Friday 10.00-17.45, Saturday 10.00-19.45, Sunday 10.00-17.45

Regular visit price: adults - $25, students and pensioners (65 years and older) with a valid ID - $18, children under 12 years old - free

Free entrance for all: every Saturday with 17.45-19.45

Japanese public gallery

The museum contains artifacts of a long historical period: archaeological finds, handicrafts, works of art. They represent the world of Japan to visitors, as well as form a general view of the nation.

Address: Japan Society Gallery / 333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017

Openning time: Tuesday-Thursday 11.00-18.00, Friday 11.00-21.00, Saturday-Sunday 11.00-17.00

Regular visit price: adults - $15, students and pensioners - $10, children under 16 years old - free

Free entrance for all: every Friday with 18.00-21.00

Jewish Museum

The museum houses the largest collection of Jewish art and culture outside of Israel. Today it contains more than 26 thousand items. Among them: various paintings, artifacts, sculptures and objects of ceremonial culture of the Jews. Of particular interest are an ancient document - a marriage contract from 1776, a brass kitchen pot from 1579 from Frankfurt, and an unusually beautiful Torah ark from the late 19th century.

Address: Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128

Openning time: Monday-Tuesday 11.00-17.45, Thursday 11.00-20.00, Friday-Sunday 11.00-17.45

Regular visit price: adults - $15, pensioners (65 years and older) - $12, students - $7.5, children under 18 - free

Free entrance for all:

• every thursday xnumx-xnumx
• Every Saturday

LifeFac: Some free days at New York museums don't mean free admission. The rule here is: pay what you want. That is, you are asked to make a donation to the museum fund, but what amount to leave and whether to leave it at all is up to you to decide. The generally accepted amount is no less than $2.

Morgan Library and Museum

The museum exhibition is a unique collection. It includes: manuscripts, original notes, personal tables and valuable autographs of famous artists and musicians. All this, from 1890 of the year, was collected by American tycoon John Pierpont Morgan, who for about twenty years belonged to the most famous US financial figures. Visitors will be able to see his Morgan study, as well as unique exhibits - six sheets of the score entitled “Concerto for Wind Instruments in E Flat Major” written by Mozart and the Bible 1455 of the year belonging to Guttenberg himself.

Address: Morgan library and museum / 225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Openning time: Tuesday-Thursday 10.30-17.00, Friday 10.30-21.00, Saturday 10.00-18.00, Sunday 11.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $20, seniors (65 years and older) - $13, students with current ID - $13, children under 12 - free

Free entrance for all: every Friday 19.00-21.00

Eldridge Street Synagogue Museum

The synagogue is rightfully considered one of the most unusual buildings in New York. It harmoniously combines Gothic and Moorish styles and romanticism. For some time the synagogue fell into disrepair. But after 20 years of reconstruction, it came to life again - now in the form of a museum of Jewish history and culture. Sometimes services are still held here.

Address: Museum at eldridge street / 12 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002

Openning time: Monday-Thursday 10.00-17.00, Friday 10.00-15.00, Sunday 10.00-17.00

Regular visit price: adults - $14, pensioners and students - $10, children (from 5 to 17 years old) - $8, children under 5 years old - free

Free entrance for all: every Monday

Noguchi Museum

This museum was created by the famous artist Isamu Noguchi. The exhibits are a symbiosis of art objects created by Noguchi himself - drawings, scenographic works, architectural models, sculptures and much more. There is also a sculpture garden here.

Address: The noguchi museum / 3338 10th St, Queens, NY 11106

Openning time: Wednesday-Friday 10.00-17.00, Saturday-Sunday 11.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $10, retired US citizens - $5, students with valid ID - $5, children under 12 - free

Free entrance for all: first friday of each month

Rubin Museum of Art

The collection of this museum will interest those visitors who are interested in Tibet and the Himalayas. The basis of the collection is from the personal collection of businessman Donald Rubin. Currently, more than 2000 different pieces of art are stored here.

Address: Rubin Museum of Art / 150 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011

Openning time: Monday 11.00-17.00, Wednesday 11.00-21.00, Thursday 11.00-17.00, Friday 11.00-22.00, Saturday-Sunday 11.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $15, seniors - $10, students - $10, children under 12 - free

Free entry:

• for everyone - every Friday 18.00-22.00
• for pensioners - the first Monday of each month

Museum Studio in Harlem

The exposition of the museum is an object of art and culture of African Americans. Here are three halls that are filled with works of art by famous black artists.

Address: Studio Museum in Harlem / 144 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027

Openning time: Thursday-Friday 12.00-21.00, Saturday 10.00-18.00, Sunday 12.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $7, pensioners and students with a valid ID - $3, children under 12 years old - free

Free entrance for all: every Sunday

Whitney Museum of American Art

The collection is based on works of various movements of contemporary American art of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes photographs, installations, graphics, contemporary paintings, sculptures and current video technology capabilities. The museum contains about 18 thousand objects of art. The museum also houses a special restaurant where they sell highly sought-after honey, which is obtained from hives located on the roof of the museum itself.

Address: Whitney Museum of American Art / 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014

Openning time: Monday, Wednesday-Thursday 10.30-18.00, Friday-Saturday 10.30-22.00, Sunday 10.30-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $22, pensioners and students - $18, children under 18 - free

Free entrance for all: every Friday 19.00-22.00

Bronx Zoo

This zoo is one of the largest urban zoos in the world. It extends over 107 hectares. More than 600 species of animals live here in natural conditions. Visitors will be able to ride on monorail trailers. Here you can see rhinoceroses, elephants, antelopes, gorillas, small monkeys, huge tigers, crocodiles, lemurs and hissing cockroaches.

Address: The Bronx Zoo / 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10460

Openning time: Monday-Friday 10.00-17.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.00-17.30

Regular visit price: adults - $33.95, seniors (65 years and older) - $28.95, children (3 to 12 years old) - $23.95, children under 3 years old - free

Free entrance for all: Every Wednesday

Brooklyn Botanical Garden

The garden, which is already more than a hundred years old, is 21 hectares planted with various types of flower beds. This is one of the most famous places where you can admire the cherry blossoms. This garden has hills, a waterfall and a pond with islands. It is also famous for its rose garden. The garden's collection includes more than a thousand varieties of roses.

Address: Brooklyn Botanic Garden / 990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Openning time: Tuesday-Friday 08.00-18.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.00-18.00

Regular visit price: adults - $12, pensioners (65 years and older) - $6, students (12 years and older) with ID - $6, children under 12 years old - free

Free entry:

• for everyone - on Tuesdays all day and on Saturdays from 10.00 to noon
• for pensioners - on Fridays all year round

New York Aquarium

About 350 species of inhabitants of flora and fauna live in it. The exposition of the aquarium is very dynamic, it is constantly changing, thanks to the exchange programs with other aquariums. In addition, the aquarium is engaged in scientific activities. Laboratories are functioning on its territory, which, in particular, study the thinking of dolphins and test mechanisms for tracking the marked sharks. Rare species of penguins, beluga, fur seals and dolphins also breed in the aquarium.

Address: New york aquarium / 602 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11224

Openning time: daily 10.00-16.30

Regular visit price: all visitors over 3 years old - $11.95, children under 3 years old - free

Free entrance for all: every friday c 15.00

New York Hall of Science

Museum created to study science and technology. The museum collection includes such exhibitions: “I see the light”, “The world of the atom”, “The hidden kingdoms” and “The world of microbes”, which will interest both adults and children.

Address: New York Hall of Science / 47-01 111th St, Corona, NY 11368

Openning time: Monday-Friday 09.30-17.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.00-18.00

Regular visit price: Adults (18 years and older) - $15, Senior US Citizens (62 years and older) - $12, Students with College ID - $12, Children (2 to 17 years old) - $12, Children under 2 years old - Free

Free entrance for all:

• every Friday from 14.00-17.00
• every sunday 10.00-11.00

Children's Art Museum

The museum's collection includes about 2000 exhibits. And they are all children's drawings. The museum has all the conditions for children's creativity - master classes are held daily, and the store sells paints, albums and everything needed for creativity.

Address: Children's Museum of the Arts / 103 Charlton St, New York, NY 10014

Openning time: Monday 12.00-17.00, Thursday-Friday 12.00-18.00, Saturday-Sunday 10.00-17.00

Regular visit price: all visitors aged 1 to 65 years - $12, children under 1 year - free

Free entry:

• pensioners (from 65 and older) every day
• for all on thursday xnumx-xnumx

New york botanical garden

Visitors can see a herbarium of several thousand different flowers and plants, as well as visit one of the best libraries in America, where works on the world flora and fauna are collected.

Address: New York Botanical Garden / 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458

Openning time: Tuesday-Sunday 10.00-18.00

Regular visit price:

• weekends and holidays: adults - $25, seniors (65 years and older) - $22, students with a valid ID - $22, children (2 to 12 years old) - $10, children under 2 years old - free
• weekdays: adults - $20, seniors (65 years and older) - $18, students with a valid ID - $18, children (2 to 12 years old) - $8, children under 2 years old - free

Free entrance for all:

• Wednesday - all day
• Saturday — 9.00-10.00

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