Living in or visiting New York City? Don’t spend an arm and a leg on admission to visit the finest museums NYC has to offer! The following list shows which museums you can see for free in New York City and when.

Always Free

• African Burial Ground Memorial Site
• American Folk Art Museum
• American Museum of Natural History (Suggested Donation)
• American Numismatic Society
• BRIC House
• Brooklyn Museum (Suggested Donation)
• El Museo del Barrio (Suggested Donation)
• Federal Hall National Memorial
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• General Grant National Memorial (Grant’s Tomb)
• Godwin-Ternbach Museum
• Green-Wood Cemetary
• Hamilton Grange National Memorial
• Harbor Defense Museum
• International Print Center New York
• Irish Hunger Memorial
• Leslie–Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
• Museum of Biblical Art
• Museum of Modern Art PS1 (Suggested Donation)
• Museum of the City of New York (Suggested Donation)
• National Museum of the American Indian
• New York City Police Museum (Suggested Donation)
• New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store
• Queens Botanical Garden (Nov 1 – Mar 31)
• Queens Museum (Suggested Donation)
• Queens County Farm Museum
• Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (Suggested Donation)
• SculptureCenter (Suggested Donation)
• Socrates Sculpture Park
• Soldiers and Sailors Monument
• Staten Island Museum (Suggested Donation)
• Storefront for Art and Architecture
• Studio Museum in Harlem (Suggested Donation)
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
• The Bronx Museum of the Arts
• The Cloisters (Suggested Donation)
• The Hispanic Society of America
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suggested Donation)
• The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

Mondays

• Museum at Eldridge Street
  10:00am – 5:00pm (includes a Synagogue Tour)
• Yeshiva University Museum
  5:00pm – 8:00pm

Tuesdays

• National 9/11 Memorial Museum
  5:00pm – 8:00pm
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  Mar-Oct 8:00am – 6:00pm | Nov-Feb 8:00am – 4:30pm (except on Festival dates)
• China Institute in America
  6:00pm – 8:00pm
• Morgan Library & Museum
  3:00pm – 5:00pm (McKim Rooms only)
• Staten Island Museum
  12:00pm – 2:00pm
• The Society of Illustrators
  5:00pm – 8:00pm
• Wave Hill
  Jan-Mar 14 9:00am – 4:30pm | Mar 15-Apr 9:00am – 5:30pm | May-Jun 9:00am – 12:00pm | Jul-Aug 9:00am – 5:30pm | Sep-Oct 9:00am – 12:00pm | Nov-Dec 9:00am – 4:30pm

Wednesdays

• Bronx Zoo
  10:00am – 5:00pm (Pay-What-You-Wish Donation)
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
  4:00pm – 8:00pm
• New York Botanical Garden (Grounds-Only Admission)
  10:00am – 6:00pm
• Staten Island Zoo
  2:00pm – 4:45pm
• Queens Botanical Garden
  3:00pm – 6:00pm (April 1st through October 31st)
• Van Cortlandt House Museum
  10:00am – 3:00pm
• Yeshiva University Museum
  5:00pm – 8:00pm

Thursdays

• Bard Graduate Center
  5:00pm – 8:00pm
• Children’s Museum of the Arts
  4:00pm – 6:00pm (Pay What You Wish)
• China Institute in America
  6:00pm – 8:00pm
• David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
  7:30pm – 10:00pm
• Museum of Arts and Design
  6:00pm – 9:00pm (Pay What You Wish)
• Museum of Chinese in America
  11:00am – 9:00pm
• New Museum
  7:00pm – 9:00pm (Pay What You Wish)
• The Jewish Museum
  5:00pm – 8:00pm

Fridays

• Asia Society
  6:00pm – 9:00pm (excludes July 1 through Labor Day)
• Children’s Museum of Manhattan
  5:00pm – 8:00pm (First Friday of the month)
• Historic Richmond Town
  1:00pm – 5:00pm
• International Center of Photography
  5:00pm – 8:00pm (Pay As You Wish)
• Japan Society
  6:00pm – 9:00pm
• Morgan Library & Museum
  7:00pm – 9:00pm
• Museum of Arts and Design
  6:00pm – 9:00pm (Pay What You Wish)
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  4:00pm – 8:00pm
• Museum of the Moving Image
  4:00pm – 8:00pm
• Neue Galerie
  6:00pm – 8:00pm (First Friday of the month)
• New York Aquarium
  May 24-Sept 2 4:00pm – 6:00pm (last entry at 5:00pm) | Sep 3 – May 23 3:00pm – 4:30pm (last entry at 3:30pm) (Pay What You Wish)
• New York Hall of Science
  2:00pm – 5:00pm [September through June]
• New-York Historical Society
  6:00pm – 8:00pm (Pay What You Wish)
• Rubin Museum of Art
  6:00pm – 10:00pm
• The Noguchi Museum
  10:00am – 5:00pm (First Friday of the month)
• Whitney Museum of American Art
  6:00pm – 9:00pm (Pay What You Wish, excludes July 4th)
• Yeshiva University Museum
  11:00am – 2:30pm

Saturdays

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  10:00am – 12:00pm (except on Saturdays with public programs)
• Brooklyn Museum
  5:00pm – 11:00pm (First Saturday of the month, excluding September)
• El Museo del Barrio
  11:00am – 6:00pm (Third Saturday of the month)
• Museum of American Finance
  10:00am – 4:00pm
• New York Botanical Garden
  10:00am – 11:00am
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  5:45pm – 7:45pm
• The Jewish Museum
  11:00am – 5:45pm
• Waterfront Barge Museum
  1:00pm – 5:00pm
• Wave Hill
  9:00am – 12:00pm

Sundays

• Frick Collection
  11:00am – 1:00pm (Pay What You Wish)
• Morgan Library & Museum
  4:00pm – 6:00pm (McKim Rooms only)
• New York Hall of Science
  10:00am – 11:00am (September through June)
• Queens Botanical Garden
  9:00am – 11:00am (April 1st through October 31st)
• Studio Museum in Harlem
  12:00pm – 6:00pm