Looking for places to take your children that will cost next to nothing? The New York City Department of Education recently shared a handy list of no-cost and pay-as-you-wish cultural institutions.
Daily
Free every day
● American Folk Art Museum
● Museum at FIT
● Queens Museum
● The Bronx Museum of the Arts
● National Museum of the American Indian
● Socrates Sculpture Park
● MOMA PS1
● Africa Center (except ticketed exhibitions)
● American Folk Art Museum
● Center for Jewish History: Register in advance
● Fraunces Tavern Museum Free with SNAP & EBT card and valid ID.
● The Drawing Center
● The Grolier Club
● Harbor Defense Museum
● The Hispanic Society Museum & Library
● King Manor Museum
Pay what you wish
● American Museum of Natural History
● Brooklyn Museum
● Metropolitan Museum of Art
● El Museo del Barrio
● Museum of the City of New York
● Staten Island Museum
● Brooklyn Botanical Garden (Dec-Feb)
● National Jazz Museum
● Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Pay what you wish: daily 5-6 p.m.)
● Guggenheim Museum (Mondays & Saturdays 4-5:30 p.m.)
● El Museo del Barrio
Weekly
Monday
● Museum at Eldridge Street: Pay what you wish
● 9/11 Museum: Free between 5:30-7 p.m.
Wednesday
● New York Aquarium: Free after 3 p.m.
● New York Botanical Gardens: Free all day
● Bronx Zoo: Free all day
Thursday
● Frick Museum: Pay what you wish from 4-6 p.m.
● Brooklyn Children’s Museum: Free from 2-5 p.m.
● New Museum: Pay what you wish from 7-9 p.m.
● Wave Hill
Friday
● Museum at Eldridge Street: Pay what you wish
● New York Historical Society Museum: Pay what you wish 6-8 p.m.
● Asia Society Museum: Free
● Whitney Museum: Free 5-10 p.m.
● Rubin Museum: Free 6-10 p.m.
● Morgan Library & Museum: Free 5-7 p.m.
Saturday
● Jewish Museum: Free all day
● Guggenheim: Pay what you wish 4-5:30 p.m.
Culture Pass
Explore local museums and attractions with Culture Pass! If you have a library card from the Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, or NewYork Public Library (serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island), you can reserve free passes to 80+ cultural institutions across NYC. For more information visit here.
A few of the museums that are free with a Culture Pass:
● Intrepid Museum
● Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
● International Center of Photography
● Museum of the Moving Image
● New York Transit Museum
● Woolman Rink
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