NEW YORK MUHTARI: Museums

Closed Museum Days

Closed Monday
American Folk Art Museum
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Museum
Bronx Museum
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
Frick Collection
Hispanic Society of America
International Center of Photography
Louis Armstrong House
Met Museum of Art and Cloisters
Morgan Museum
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum (and all of August)
Museum of Biblical Art
Museum of the City of New York
National Academy
New York Botanical Garden
NYC Fire Museum
New-York Historical Society
New York Transit Museum
Noguchi Museum
Skyscraper Museum
Society of Illustrators
Studio Museum of Harlem
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Ukrainian Museum
Wave Hill
Whitney Museum of American Art

Closed Tuesday
Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Museum
Bronx Museum
Merchant’s House Museum
National Academy
Neue Galerie
Noguchi Museum
P.S. MoMA
Rubin Museum
Skyscraper Museum
Studio Museum of Harlem
Ukrainian Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art

Closed Wednesday
Bronx Museum
Merchant’s House Museum
Neue Galerie
P.S. MoMA
Jewish Museum

Closed Thursday
Guggenheim

Closed Friday

Closed Saturday
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Federal Hall

Closed Sunday
Fraunces Tavern Museum
NYC Police Museum
Federal Hall
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace

Museums with free or pay-what-you-wish hours

Mondays
Museum at Eldridge Street - Free tours every half hour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (normally $10)
Yeshiva University Museum - Free 5 to 8 p.m. (normally $8)

Tuesdays
Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Free all day (normally $8)
November through April Wave Hill - Free all day (normally $8)
China Institute Gallery - Free 6 to 8 p.m. (normally $7)
Staten Island Museum - Free noon to 2 p.m. (normally $3)

Wednesdays
Bronx Zoo - Pay-what-you-wish donation all day (normally $16)
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust - Free 4 to 8 p.m. (normally $12)
Staten Island Zoo - Free 2 to 4:45 p.m. (normally $8)
Yeshiva University Museum - Free 5 to 8 p.m. (normally $8)
NY Botanical Garden - Free grounds access all day, but excludes the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, Rock and Native Plant gardens and tram tour (grounds-only access normally $6)
Van Cortlandt House Museum - Free all day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (normally $5)
Starting April 1: Queens Botanical Garden - Free from 3 to 6 p.m. (normally $4)

Thursdays
Museum of Arts & Design - Pay-what-you-wish 6 to 9 p.m. (normally $15)
New Museum - Free 7 to 9 p.m. (normally $12)
Museum of Chinese in America - Free all day, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (normally $7)
China Institute Gallery - Free 6 to 8 p.m. (normally $7)
Third Thursdays only: Brooklyn Children’s Museum - Free 5 to 7:30 p.m. (normally $7.50)

Fridays
Museum of Modern Art - Free 4 to 8 p.m. (normally $20)
Whitney Museum of American Art - Pay-what-you-wish 6 to 9 p.m. (normally $18)
New York Aquarium - Pay-what-you-wish 3 p.m. until closing (normally $13)
Morgan Library & Museum - Free 7 to 9 p.m. (normally $15)
Japan Society - Free 6 to 9 p.m. (normally $15)
International Center of Photography - Voluntary contribution admission 5 to 8 p.m. (normally $12)
Folk Art Museum - Free 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (normally $12)
NY Hall of Science - Free 2 to 5 p.m., from September through June (normally $11)
Rubin Museum of Art - Free 6 to 10 p.m. (normally $10)
Museum of the Moving Image - Free 4 to 8 p.m. (normally $10)
Suspended Jan. 7 to Feb. 4: Asia Society - Free 6 to 9 p.m. (normally $10)
Yeshiva University Museum - Free 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (normally $8)
Bronx Museum - Free 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (normally $5 suggested)
First Fridays only Neue Galerie - Free from 6 to 8 p.m., (normally $15)
First Fridays only: The Noguchi Museum - Pay-what-you-wish 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (normally $10)
First Fridays only: Children’s Museum of Manhattan - Free the first Friday of each month 5 to 8 p.m. (normally $10)
Third Fridays only: Seaport Museum - Free 6 to 8 p.m. (normally $15)

Saturdays
Guggenheim - Pay-what-you-wish 5:45 to 7:45 p.m. (normally $18)
Jewish Museum - Free all day, from 11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. (normally $12)
Suspended during Sakura Matsuri weekend, April 30, 2011, and other festivals: Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Free 10 a.m. to noon (normally $8)
Wave Hill - Free 9 a.m. to noon (normally $8)
NY Botanical Garden - Free grounds access 10 a.m. to noon, but excludes the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, Rock and Native Plant gardens and tram tour (grounds-only access normally $6)
First Saturdays only: Brooklyn Museum - Free admission and programs from 5 to 11 p.m. on the first Saturday of most months (normally a suggested $10)
Third Saturdays only: El Museo del Barrio - Free 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (normally a suggested $9)

Sundays
Frick Collection - Pay-what-you-wish 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (normally $18)
NY Hall of Science - Free 10 to 11 a.m., from September through June (normally $11)
Studio Museum in Harlem - Free noon to 6 p.m. (normally $7 recommended)
Starting April 1: Queens Botanical Garden - Free admission 4 to 6 p.m. (normally $4)

SOURCE : NewYorkology

Museum Parties in New York

Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, (212) 288-6400; asiasociety.org. First Fridays: Asia Circle Cocktail Evening, 6 to 9 p.m. in the Leo Bar, free.

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, (718) 638-5000; brooklynmuseum.org. Target First Saturdays, 5 to 11 p.m., free.

Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, (718) 681-6000; bronxmuseum.org. Open every Friday until 8 p.m., free. Also, First Fridays feature special events.

Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, (212) 423-3500; guggenheim.org. Art After Dark First Fridays, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., $25.

New Museum, 235 Bowery, (212) 219-1222; newmuseum.org. Open Thursday and Friday until 10 p.m. Free Thursdays after 7 p.m.

Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, (212) 620-5000; rmanyc.org. Fridays 7 to 10 p.m., free. Happy Hour at K2 Lounge and other programs, 6 to 10 p.m.

Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, (800) 944-8639; whitney.org. Fridays, pay what you wish from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Whitney Live, featuring live music, some Fridays at 7 p.m.

SOURCE : NYTimes

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