These 22 New York-Area Museums Are Offering Free Admission for One Day Only This Weekend
“You get a free museum
admission! And you get a free museum admission! And
you get a free museum admission! Free museum admissions
for everybody!” shouts the imaginary art-world Oprah in
our minds.
Yes, the 15th annual Museum Day is just around the
bend: this Saturday, September 21, more than 1,500 museums and
cultural institutions across the country will open their doors to
visitors for free. That includes a fair share of institutions in
the New York City area.
Not be confused with Museum Mile
Day or Open House New York, Museum Day is organized by
Smithsonian Magazine—and last year over 450,000 people
participated. If you’re interested, all you need to do is
download a special ticket
for entry, each good for admission for two.
A word to the wise: you have to
choose your destination ahead of time and once it is selected, it
can’t be changed. To help you pick, we’ve put together a list of
the participating art institutions.
Manhattan
American Folk Art Museum
Courtesy of the American Folk Art
Museum.
Location: 2 Lincoln Square
(Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets), New
York
Museum Day Hours: 11:30
a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Museum of Arts and Design
Courtesy of the Museum of Art and
Design.
Location: 2 Columbus
Circle, New York
Museum Day Hours: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Asia Society and Museum
Courtesy of Asia Society.
Location: 725 Park Avenue,
New York
Museum
Day Hours: 11:00 a.m.–6:00
p.m.
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Courtesy of Bard Graduate Center.
Location: 18 West 86th
Street, New York
Museum Day Hours: 11:00
a.m.–5:00 p.m
Museum of Chinese in America
Courtesy of the Museum of Chinese in
America.
Location: 215 Centre
Street, New York
Museum Day Hours: 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Museum of the City of New York
Courtesy of the Museum of the City of
New York.
Location: 1220 Fifth
Avenue, New York
Museum Day Hours: 10:00 a.m. ‐ 6:00 p.m.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
Museum
Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian
Design Center.
Location: 2 East 91st Street, New York
Museum Day Hours: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Museum of Illustration at the Society of
Illustrators
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Courtesy of the Jewish Museum.
Location: 1109 Fifth
Avenue at 92nd Street, New York
Museum Day Hours:
11:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian in New
York
Courtesy of the National Museum of the
American Indian.
Location: Alexander
Hamilton U.S. Custom House,One Bowling Green, New York
Museum Day Hours: 10:00
a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Poster House
Courtesy of the Poster Museum.
Courtesy of the Ukrainian Museum.
Location: 222 East 6th
Street, New York
Museum Day Hours: 11:30 a.m.‐5:00 p.m.
The Bronx
Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at
Hebrew Home at Riverdale
Courtesy of the Derfner Judaica Museum +
The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale.
Location: 5901 Palisade
Avenue, Bronx
Time: Museum closed
Saturday; ticket valid Sunday, September 22, 10:30 a.m.–4:30
p.m.
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Art & Historical
Center
Courtesy of the Williamsburg Art and
Historical Center.
Courtesy of the Noguchi Museum.
Location: 9-01 33rd Road
at Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City
Museum Day
Hours: 11:00 a.m.–6:00
p.m.
Staten Island
Alice Austen House Museum
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Location: 2 Hylan
Boulevard, Staten Island
Time: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug
Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Courtesy of Newhouse Center for
Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical
Garden.
Location: 1000 Richmond
Terrace, Buildings C & G, Staten Island
Museum Day
Hours: 11:00 a.m.–5:00
p.m.
Westchester
Katonah Museum of Art
Courtesy of the Katonah Museum of
Art.
Location: 134 Jay Street,
Katonah
Museum Day Hours: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Long
Island
The Heckscher Museum of Art
Courtesy of the The Heckscher Museum of
Art.
Location: 2 Prime Avenue,
Huntington
Museum Day Hours: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hofstra University Museum of Art
Courtesy of the Hofstra Museum of
Art.
Location: 112 Hofstra
University, Hempstead
Museum Day Hours:
12:00 p.m.‐4:00 p.m.
Nassau County Museum of Art
Courtesy of the Nassau County Museum of
Art.
Location: One Museum
Drive, Roslyn Harbor
Museum Day Hours:
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Newark
Newark Museum
Courtesy of the Newark Museum.
Location: 49 Washington
Street, Newark
Museum Day Hours: 12:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m.
Check the Museum Day 2019 website for
additional information.
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