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Need something to do over a vacation? Here's a list of some wonderful New York City museums!
New York City Museums
Museum Mile is a stretch along 5th Avenue chock full of museums and other fine arts institutions. Museums include
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave at 104th St
Phone: (212) 831-7272
Website: http://www.elmuseo.org
Hours: Wed-Sun: 11 am-5pm
Admission: Adults, $5, Students/seniors: $3, Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult.
New York City’s only Latino museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American Art.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St.
Phone: (212) 534-1672
Website: http://www.mcny.org
Hours: Wed.-Sat.: 10 am-5 pm
Sunday: Noon to 5 pm
Admission: General, $7, Student/senior/child, $4, Family, $12
New York’s premier museum depicting the history the city.
International Center of Photography
5th at 94th St.
Phone: (212) 768-4682
Website: http://www.icp.org
Hours: Tues-Thursday: 10 am-5pm
Friday: 10 am-8 pm
Closed Monday and July 4th
Admission: General Admission: $8, Students/Seniors, $6
New York City’s only museum devoted exclusively to photography, with changing exhibits.
Jewish Museum
1109 5th at 92nd St.
Phone: (212) 423-3200
Website: http://www.jewishmuseum.org
Hours: Sun-Thursday: 11 am-5:45 pm
Tuesday: 11am-8pm
Admission: General, $8, Students/seniors, $5.50, Children under 12, free
Devoted to 4,000 years of Jewish art and culture, it is the largest Jewish Museum in the Western Hemisphere.
Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design
2 East 91st ST.
Phone: (212) 849-8420
Website: http://ndm.si.edu/
Hours: Sunday, 12 pm-5 pm
Tuesday, 10am-9pm
Wed.-Sat: 10am-5pm
Closed Monday
Admission: Adults $8, Seniors/students $5, Children under 12 free, Free on Tuesdays from 5-9pm "In the Andrew Carnegie Mansion Historical and contemporary design. The exhibits, in large part, focus on work that gives every day items like furniture, computers and toothbrushes a more unique appearance, adding form to the function. Architecture and graphic design are also well covered. "
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 5th at 89th St.
Phone: (212) 369-4880
Website: http://www.nationalacademy.org
Hours: Wed-Sunday: 12 pm-5 pm;
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Admission: Adults: $8, Students/seniors $4.50
"In an elegant townhouse, changing exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings."
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th at 89th
Phone: (212) 423-3500
Website: http://www.guggenheim.com
Hours: Sun-Wed: 9 am-6 pm
Fri-Sat: 9 am-8 pm
Closed Thursday
Admission: Adults $12, Students/seniors, $7, Children under 12, free
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and featuring the works of artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, including: Brancusi, Braque, Calder, Chagall, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Miro, Picasso and Van Gogh.
Goethe House German Cultural Center
1014 5th at 82nd St.
Phone: (212) 439-8700
Website: http://www.goethe.de
Hours: Tue, Thursday, 12 pm-7 pm; Wed, Friday, 12 pm – 5 pm
Admission: Free
The Goethe-Institute New York organizes and supports a wide range of international cultural exchange programs in close cooperation with partners and institutions in both the host countries and in Germany. These activities range from the arts and humanities through science and technology.
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd
Phone: (212) 768-4682
Website: http://www.icp.org
Hours: Tues-Thursday: 10 am-5 pm; Friday: 10 am-8 pm
Closed Monday and July 4
Admission: General Admission: $8, Students/Seniors: $6 New York City’s only museum devoted exclusively to photography, with changing exhibits.
Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 West 107th Street (between Broadway and Riverside Drive)
Phone: (212) 864-7752
Website: http://www.roerich.org
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 2-5 pm
Nicholas Roerich, the Russian-American start of this one-man Museum, was a true Renaissance man, involved in a vast range of artistic, philosophical and spiritual pursuits.
Other Museums of Interest
The Whitney Brooklyn Museum of Art Frick Collection American Folk Art Museum Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
Also check out: http://www.ny.com/museums/all.museums.html
CHILDREN’S MUSEUMS ALL AGES
Children’s Museum of the Arts
182 Lafayette St. between Broome and Grant St.
Phone: (212) 941-9198
Website: http://www.ny.com/museums/children.museum.of.the.arts.html
Hours: Wed: 12 pm-7 pm
Thurs-Sunday: 12 pm-5 pm
Admission: $5 (children under12 months and adults over 65, free)
The museum provides stimulating and interactive exhibits and programs for children under 10 years of age, encouraging them to develop their full creative potential through visual and performing arts.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
The Tisch Building
212 West 83rd St.
Phone: (212) 721-1234
Fax: (212) 721-1127
Website: http://www.cmom.org
Hours: Tues.-Sunday: 10 am-5 pm
Open July 4th!
Admission: Adults & Children: $7(under 12 months free), Seniors: $4,
Five floors of interactive exhibitions for children and families. Hands-on exhibits/daily workshops for children 18 months-10 yrs."
New Jersey Children’s Museum
599 Industrial Avenue Paramus, New Jersey
Phone: (201) 262-5151
Website: http://www.njcm.com
Hours: Weekdays: 10 am – 5 pm Sunday: 9 am-5 pm
Admission: $ 8 plus tax for adults and children Free for children under 1
Your family will have hours of fun playing and learning together! The Museum has over 30 different exhibits, in 15,000 square feet, each designed for specific groups, from the special Baby Nook and Housekeeping for two’s and toddlers, to the challenging Science and Technology for first graders.
4 Years and Older
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
Phone: (212) 769-5100
Website: http://www.amnh.org
Hours: Daily 10 am-5:45 pm, Rose Center open until 8:45 pm on Friday
Admission PLUS space show: Suggested donation: $19.00, Children: $11.50, Students/seniors: $7.50 One of the largest and most innovative natural history museums. Includes famous dinosaur halls, Akeley Hall of American Mammals, Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, and the Rose Center, featuring the most technologically advanced space show in the world.
New York City Fire Museum
278 Spring Street SOHO
Phone: (212) 691-1303
Website: http://www.nycfiremuseum.org
Hours: Tues - Sun: 10 am - 4 pm
Admission: $4 Adults, $1 children under 12, $2 seniors/students
Houses one of the finest collections of fire service related art and artifacts in the country. Preserves the history of firefighting and teaches safety through its exhibits and programs.
New York City Transit Museum
Corner of Boerum Pl. & Schermenhorn St. (former subway station) Brooklyn, New York 11201
Phone: (718) 694-1600
Website: http://www.transitmuseum.com/
Hours: Tues-Fri 10 am-4 pm Sat & Sun 12pm-5pm, Closed Mondays and Holidays
Admission: General $5.00, Children $3.00, Senior Citizens $3.00
For a well-presented historical survey of the New York City Transit System, visit this museum housed in an authentic 30’s station. A great place to take kids, the museum offers artifacts from yesteryear including vintage subway cars, antique turnstiles, and much more.
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY
Phone: (718) 699-0005
Website: http://www.nyhallscie.org
Hours: Mon-Friday: 9:30 am-5 pm
Sat/Sun: 10am-6pm
Admission: Adults: $7.50, Children (4-17, $5.00; Seniors 62+: $5.00
Built as a pavilion for the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, the Hall of Science served as a museum from 1966 to 1981. In 1986, an improved museum reopened with 25,000 square feet of exhibition space, new hands-on exhibitions, and a new staff.
5 Years and Older
Hayden Planetarium
At the American Museum of Natural History Entrance on 81st Street just off of Central Park West
Phone: (212) 769-5100
Website: http://www.amnh.org/rose
Hours: Daily 10 am-5:45 pm The Rose Center remains open on Fri. until 8:45pm
Admission: Suggested Donation $10.00, Children $6.00, Students/seniors $7.50
Admission PLUS Space Show: Donation $19.00, Children $11.50, Students/seniors $14.00
The Rose Center’s main goal is to make science, specifically astronomy and astrophysics, more accessible to the public at every level of understanding, to bring the universe down to Earth.
Intrepid Sea-Air Space Museum
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum Pier 86, W. 46th Street & 12th Avenue (on the Hudson)
Phone: (212) 245-0072
Website: http://www.intrepidmuseum.org
Hours: Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Sun 10 am-6 pm
Admission: $12, Veterans/Seniors/Students 12-17: $9, Child 6-11: $6, Child 2-5: $2 Act. Duty US Military/Museum Members/Child under 2: Free
The Intrepid is a 40,000 ton, 900 foot-long aircraft carrier that served the Navy from 1943 to 1974. On board, you’ll find an awesome collection of aircrafts from WWII to the present including the world’s fastest aircraft, a Lockheed A-12 Blackbird. Also on display is the USS Growler, the only intact strategic missile submarine open to the public anywhere in the world. For an extra $5, you can fly your own jet mission on the Intrepid Navy Flight Simulator, a new motion-based thrill ride.
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum
145 Brooklyn Avenue at St. Marks Abe.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Phone: (718) 735-4400
Website: http://www.bchildmus.org
Hours: Mon-Tuesday, closed
Wed-Friday: 2-5 pm
Sat-Sunday: 10am-5pm
dmission: Suggested donation: $4
The world’s first museum for children, the BCM has given youth a place where learning and life come together since 1899. Children can explore culture, arts, science, and the environment. BCM offers innovative hands-on exhibitions, daily workshops and programs, and weekend multicultural performances.
South Street Seaport
South Street Seaport Museum 207 Front St.
Phone: (212) 748-8600 Fax: (212) 748-8610
Website: http://www.SouthStSeaport.org
Hours: 10 am to 6 pm; Thurs. until 8 pm
Admission: Adults: $6; Seniors: $5; Students w/ID: $4; Children: $3
New York City’s maritime past comes alive at South Street Seaport Museum. Here adults, families, and children can see, touch and enjoy the city’s rich and diverse maritime past in the 19th century district where it all began. Explore the decks and cabins of six historic ships, see exhibitions of maritime art and artifacts, discover New York’s archaeological heritage. Journey through the area’s stone-paved streets as well as the little shops all along he way. Learn to use a 19th Century letterpress, sail around New York harbor on a graceful twin-masted schooner or excursion vessel.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
56th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues
Phone: (212) 833-8100
Website: sonywondertechlab.com
Hours: Mon Closed Tues-Sat 10 am-6 pm Thurs 10 am-8 pm Sun noon – 6 pm
Admission: Free
The Sony Wonder Technology Lab is a great place for kids of all ages to learn about technology through interactive exhibits. Children under 8 may need a little help with some of the exhibits.
6 Years and Older
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue Fifth Ave at 82nd Street
Phone: (212) 535-7710
Website: http://www.metmuseum.org
Hours: Mon Closed Tues-Thurs 9:30am-5:30pm Fri-Sat 9:30am-9:00pm Sun 9:30am-5:30pm
Admission: General $10, Students/Seniors $5 12 years and under are free, when accompanied by adult "The Met is a universal museum: every category of art in every known medium from every part of the world during every epoch of recorded time is represented here and thus available for contemplation or study -- not in isolation but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other media."
Staten Island of Institute of Arts and Sciences
75 Stuyvesant Pl. Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: (718) 727-1135
Call for details
Hours: Mon-Sat 9am-5pm Sun 1-5pm
Admission: General $2.50, Students/seniors $1.50
The Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences offers exciting programs including science clubs for kids, excursions, lunch and dinner programs, and crafts events. Call for details.
7 Years and Older
NYC Police Museum
25 Broadway, 2nd Floor Between Morris and Bowling Green
Phone: (212) 301-4440
Website: http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm Sat-Sun: 10am-4pm
Admission: FREE
"The New York City Police Museum, a not-for-profit New York State Department of Education Chartered Museum is now open to the public. Located in the heart of the Financial District near other museums such as the Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of American Financial History, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty ferries."
10 Years and Older
Museum of Television and Radio
25 West 52nd Street
Phone: (212) 621-6800
Website: http://www.mtr.org
Hours: Tues- Sun noon-6pm Thurs noon-8pm Theaters: Fri noon-9pm
Admission: Student/Seniors: $4, Children under 13, $3 "The Museum of Television and Radio is dedicated to audio-visual artifacts with a collection of over 50,000 TV and radio shows. Pick your selection from the library and watch it at one of the many video consoles."
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