Sunday, October 12, 2008

Museums (II): Fridays

Fridays in New York are "museum day". It's when most museums have discounted admissions or are free at certain times.

Here's a short list (please visit the museum website for details):

Fridays
American Folk Art Museum (45 West 53rd St.)
Asia Society and Museum (725 Park Ave. at 70th St.)
Brooklyn Botanical Garden (1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn)
Bronx Museum of the Arts (Fordham Road and the Bronx River Parkway, Bronx)
Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Ave. at 89th St.)
International Center of Photography (1133 Ave. of the Americas at 43rd st.)
The Morgan Library and Museum (225 Madison Ave. at 36th St.)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd St.)
Museum of the Moving Image (35th Ave. at 36th St. in Astoria)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Ave.) [suggested admission]
New York Historical Society (170 Central Park West, bet. 76th and 77th Sts.)
Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.)

Also on Saturdays:
Brooklyn Botanical Garden (1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn)
Brooklyn Museum of Art First Saturdays (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn)
The Jewish Museum (1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd St.)
New York Botanical Garden (Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Rd., Bronx)

And on Sundays:
The Frick Collection (1 East 70th St.)
Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St.)

Always Free Admission:
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (Seventh Ave. at 27th St.)
National Museum of the American Indian (1 Bowling Green)
Goethe Institut (1014 Fifth Ave.)

(Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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