How to get to New York museums for free or almost for free

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New York is known for its high prices, but residents and guests can count on its generosity. Many of the main attractions, museums, galleries offer free entrance on weekends or low-cost access.

NYC-Arts created a list of free and low-cost places such as galleries and museums of colleges and universities.

Always free entry - or pay what you want

American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural History (pay what you want)
Bronx museum (pay what you want)
Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcafé live events
Brooklyn museum (pay what you want)
The Cloisters (pay what you want)
The Museum of the Neighborhood (pay what you want)
Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College
Green-Wood Cemetery
International Print Center
Metropolitan Museum of Art (pay what you want)
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
National Museum of the American Indian — Smithsonian Institution
New York City Police Museum (pay what you want)
PS1 MoMA (pay what you want)
Queens Botanical Garden (pay what you want)
Queens Museum of Art (pay what you want)
SculptureCenter (pay what you want)
Socrates Sculpture Park
Staten island museum (pay what you want)
Storefront for Art & Architecture
Studio Museum in Harlem (pay what you want)
Waterfront museum

Monthly free admission at specific times

Bronx museum (first Friday of the month, from 18: 00 to 22: 00)
Brooklyn Children's Museum (second weekend, before 11: 00)
Brooklyn museum (first Saturday, from 17: 00 to 22: 00)
The Museum of the Neighborhood (the third Saturday, from 11: 00 to 20: 00)
Neue gallerie (first Friday, from 18: 00 to 20: 00)
Noguchi Museum (first Friday, pay what you want)

Weekly free admission at a specific time or day

Monday
Museum at eldridge street
Yeshiva University Museum

Tuesday
9 / 11 Memorial Museum 17:00-20:00
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
China Institute 18:00-20:00
Staten island museum 12:00-14:00
Wave Hill 9: 00 - 12: 00

WEDNESDAY
Bronx zoo (pay what you want)
Museum of Jewish Heritage 16:00-20:00
New York Botanical Garden
Queens Botanical Garden April-October, 15: 00-18: 00
Van Cortlandt House Museum
Yeshiva University Museum 17:00-20:00

THURSDAY
Brooklyn Children's Museum 15:00-17:00
China Institute 18:00-20:00
International Center for Photography 18: 00-21: 00 (pay what you want)
Museum of Arts and Design 18:00 – 21:00 (pay what you want)
Museum of Chinese in America
New museum 19:00-21:00
Trinity Church: Concerts at One 13: 00-14: 00 (September to May)

FRIDAY
Japan Society 18:00-21:00
Morgan Library & Museum 19:00-21:00
Museum of Modern Art 16:00-20:00
Neue Galerie 18:00-20:00
New-York Historical Society 18: 00-20: 00 (pay what you want)
New york aquarium 15: 00- before closing (pay what you want)
New York Hall of Science 14: 00-17: 00 (September to June)
Rubin Museum of Art 19:00-22:00
Staten island museum 12: 00 - 14: 00
Whitney Museum of American Art 19:00-21:30
Yeshiva University Museum

SATURDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden 10: 00 - 12: 00
Jewish Museum
New York Botanical Garden 10: 00 - 12: 00
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 17: 45-19: 45 (pay what you want)
Wave Hill 9:00-12:00

SUNDAY
Frick Collection 11: 00-13: 00 (pay what you want)
New York Hall of Science 10:00 - 11:00 (from September to June)
Queens Botanical Garden April-October, 16:00 - 18:00
Studio Museum in Harlem

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