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A Note Regarding Admission Prices: While we here at Mondo.NY certainly feel that it is proper to pay for the things we receive (entertainment included), we also believe that the asking prices for admission to a number of New York's museums and attractions have gotten out of hand. Please Note: The admission charge to many of these institutions is only a 'suggested' or 'voluntary' amount. You are not required to pay this. Art is for everyone, not only the wealthy. That being said, when visiting these institutions, reach in your pockets and be generous but fair - they rely on your donations to continue their operations. TIP: Sites with the symbol either have a free or low admission price ($5 or less), a designated time for a discounted admission, or a "recommended," "suggested," or "voluntary" admission price. Check each icon for details. All stated admission prices, discounts, etc. are subject to change without notice.

Alice Austen House Museum
Photographs, music and reminiscences tell the story of 19th century photographer Alice Austen's World in the video narrated by legendary actress Helen Hayes, produced and directed by Stuart Hersh.

American Folk Art Museum
The museum’s collection of more than 4,000 artworks span three centuries of American visual expression, from unflinching portraits, dazzling quilts, and muscular weathervanes to potent works by contemporary self-taught artists in a variety of mediums.

American Indian Community House
It exhibits the finest contemporary and traditional art, in every media, by both emerging and established Native American artists. The Gallery presents a minimum of four exhibitions each year and presents artists lectures and forums on contemporary Native arts and issues.

American Museum of Moving Images
The Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and to examining their impact on culture and society.

American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.

ArtDate
Tours presented as a lecture and discussion in museums and galleries. Approached from a unique angle or with a concentration on a particular aspect of the exhibition, the lectures take into account the interest and knowledge of each group of participants in the art being viewed. Over 25 museums and collections will be visited over the course of the year.

Asia Society and Museum
Asia Society's collection of nearly three hundred works of art in their historical and cultural context. Includes masterworks from South, Southeast, and East Asia, dating from 2000 B.C.E. to the 19th century, reflecting the great achievements and wide diversity of Asian arts and cultures.

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is one of the most beautifully located country seats in the City. The restoration of this Mansion is an outstanding example of effective preservation in New York City. Visit the beautiful Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Carriage House and Gardens in the Bronx, New York, on the shores of Long Island Sound.

Bowne House
Bowne House (ca. 1661) is the oldest house in Queens and among the oldest in New York City. It was built by John Bowne, who emigrated from England to Boston in 1649 and settled in Flushing, Queens, when New York was under Dutch Rule.

Bronx Council on the Arts
BCOA offer Basic Cultural Services including direct financial support to individual artists and non-profit organizations, information services, technical assistance, education and community programming, advocacy and the operation of our Longwood Arts Project, an exhibition gallery and cyber arts program, and the Bronx Writers Center, an initiative dedicated to the creative and professional development of our writers. They support such visible programs such as the Bronx Cultural Trolley, the Longwood Art Gallery, the Artisans Marketplace, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Pregones Theater, the Downtown Bronx Bar and Cafe, and many others.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is a contemporary art institution dedicated to serving its dynamic neighborhood and city as well as the international art world. The Museum has a long-standing commitment to increasing audience participation in the visual arts through its Permanent Collection, exhibitions, and educational programs.

Brooklyn Children's Museum
The first museum created expressly for children when it was founded in 1899. With award-winning, hands-on exhibits and innovative use of its collections, the Museum engages children from pre-school to high school in learning adventures. It is the only children's museum in New York State to be accredited by the American Association of Museums.

Brooklyn Historical Society
The Brooklyn Historical Society is a museum, library and educational center dedicated to encouraging the exploration and appreciation of Brooklyn's rich heritage.

Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. The Museum is part of a complex of nineteenth-century parks and gardens that also includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Prospect Park Zoo.

Caribbean Cultural Center
Multidisciplinary programs such as concerts, lectures, educational workshops, art exhibitions and conferences, continuing to welcome people of all descents into our rich cultural community.

Chelsea Art Museum
A program of exhibitions which reflect contemporary human experience across a broad spectrum of cultural, social, environmental and geographical contexts. CAM’s exhibitions, each supported by a rich series of related cultural events and educational programs, seek to support in both its artists and audiences a sense of creativity, community and cultural exchange.

Children's Museum of Manhattan
The Children's Museum of Manhattan inspires children and their families to learn about themselves and our culturally diverse world through a unique environment of interactive exhibitions and programs. The Museum helps children learn in varied ways and at an individual pace, to stimulate their imagination and to encourage exploration and creativity

Dahesh Museum of Art
The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting works by Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Dahesh serves a diverse audience by placing these artists in the broader context of 19th-century visual culture, and by offering a fresh appraisal of the role academies played in reinvigorating the classical ideals of beauty, humanism, and skill.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Opened to the public in 1916, the farmhouse and park have been host to a wide range of public programs; from educational crafts for children to concerts on the back porch. The Dutch Colonial farmhouse was built on this site c. 1784. Today, nestled in a small park, the farmhouse is an extraordinary reminder of early Manhattan and an important part of its diverse Inwood neighborhood.

Edgar Allan Poe's Cottage
Administered by The Bronx County Historical Society since 1975, the cottage is restored to its original appearance, with authentic period furnishings. A film presentation and guided tour help bring Poe Cottage to life. Visitors can see the bed in which Virginia died and the rocking chair Poe used. In the kitchen, the dishes on the table appear as if the great author had just stepped out for air.

El Museo del Barrio
Founded in 1969, El Museo del Barrio has evolved into New York’s leading Latino cultural institution, having expanded its mission to represent the diversity of art and culture in all of the Caribbean and Latin America.

Ellis Island Museum
Ellis Island is a symbol of America’s immigrant heritage. From 1892 to 1954, this immigrant depot processed the greatest tide of incoming humanity in the nation’s history. Nearly twelve million landed here in their search of freedom of speech and religion, and for economic opportunity. Editor's Note - While Admission to Ellis Island is free, the CircleLine Ferry trip will set you back nearly $12.00 with General Admission pricing.

Fashion Institute of Technology
Founded in 1967 to support the academic programs of the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Museum at FIT is the repository for one of the largest collections of costume and textiles in the world, which it preserves for both study and exhibition purposes

Fauces Tavern Museum
Built in 1719 as an elegant residence for the merchant Stephan Delancey. In 1762, tavern-keeper Samuel Fraunces, purchased and turned it into one of the most popular taverns of the day. Best known as the site where Washington gave his farewell address to the officers of the Continental Army, in 1783, the tavern also played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities.

Harbor Defense Museum
Nestled within the heart of Fort Hamilton in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn—the Harbor Defense Museum’s mission is to preserve the history and evolution of New York City’s coastal defense systems. As the only Army Museum in New York City, the Harbor Defense Museum has acquired a fine collection of military artifacts from the Revolutionary War to World War II

Historic Richmond Town
Historic Richmond Town is New York City’s living history village and museum complex. Visitors can explore the diversity of the American experience, especially that of Staten Island and its neighboring communities, from the colonial period to the present.

Intrepid Museum
The Intrepid Museum has been transformed over the past couple of years to include a number of new exhibits; the newest opened July 1st titled Heroic Journeys: Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories. Our collections have grown with the addition of British Airways Concorde and our educational programming has increased as well.

Japan Society
Japan Society Gallery is a premier institution for the exhibition, research and publication of Japanese art. From prehistory to the present, the Gallery's exhibitions have covered topics as disparate as classical Buddhist sculpture and contemporary photography. The Gallery presents two major exhibitions each year, working with leading museums in Japan, the U.S., Asia and Europe to bring together objects of cultural significance, historical importance and high aesthetic value.

Jewish Museum
Through more than 28,000 objects including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media, the Museum's collection demonstrates Jewish identity and its evolution through visual art. It is one of the largest, most extensive collections of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Located in our country's most renowned immigrant neighborhood, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum interprets historic immigrant experience to illuminate the present.

Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
Madame Tussauds New York is the ultimate house of wax, and is not to be missed in your visit to the world’s greatest city. Editor's Note- Admission is steep at nearly $30.00 per Adult.

Merchant House Museum
Built in 1832 just steps from Washington Square, the house offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life during the significant period of the 19th century when New York City transformed from a colonial seaport to become the center of U.S. culture and commerce and a
"world city" on a par with London and Paris.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world ranging from treasures of classical antiquity, like those represented in its Greek and Cypriot galleries, to paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, to an extensive collection of American art. The collection also contains extensive holdings of Egyptian, African, Asian, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, Byzantine and Islamic art.

Morris-Jumel Mansion
Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan's oldest house, was headquarters to General Washington in September and October of 1776. After Washington's departure, the Mansion played host to a succession of British and Hessian military leaders, served briefly as an inn for weary travelers, and finally returned to its role as country house. And that's just the beginning of the fascinating history of this stately mansion built on a hilltop in 1765.

Museum of African Art
The Museum for African Art is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture. Recognized worldwide as the pre-eminent organizer of exhibitions and publishers of books devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary African art.

Museum of American Financial History
The nation's only independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and the democratic free market tradition which has made New York City the financial capital of the world.

Museum of Arts and Design
The country's premier institution dedicated to the collection and exhibition of contemporary objects created in clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber. The Museum celebrates materials and processes that are today embraced by artists in the fields of craft, art and design.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
The Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) is the first full-time, professionally staffed museum dedicated to reclaiming, preserving, and interpreting the history and culture of Chinese and their descendants in the Western Hemisphere.

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
MoCCA promotes greater understanding and appreciation of the artistic, cultural and historical significance of comic and cartoon art. To that end, the museum hosts exhibits and events, conducts ducational programs, and serves as a resource for those conducting scholarly or professional research on comic and cartoon art.

Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children.

Museum of Television and Radio
This unique Museum collects programming—radio shows, television programs, and commercial advertisements in both media—and makes that programming available to the general public.

Museum of the City of New York
The Museum embraces the past, present, and future of New York City and celebrates the city’s cultural diversity through its rich collections, a lively schedule of exhibitions, and an array of programs for adults and children. .

Museum of the Jewish Heritage
Created as a living memorial to those who perished during the Holocaust, the Museum honors those who died by celebrating their lives - cherishing the traditions that they embraced, examining their achievements and faith, and affirming the vibrant worldwide Jewish community that is their legacy today.

National Academy Museum
The Academy houses one of the largest public collections of 19th and 20th century American art in the country. It comprises over five thousand works in most artistic styles of the past two centuries.

National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.

New York City Fire Museum
The New York City Fire Museum houses one of the nation's most important collections of fire related art and artifacts from the late 18th century to the present. Among its holdings are painted leather buckets, helmets, parade hats and belts, lanterns and tools, pre Civil War hand pumped fire engines, horse drawn vehicles and early motorized apparatus.

New York City Police Museum
Visit the NYC Police Museum and learn about the role of the NYPD and how it has changed over time to meet New York’s ever-changing community needs. From the early days of New Amsterdam’s eight man policing team to today’s largest police force in the US, discover how changes in transportation, communication and immigration has affected community.

New York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society integrates New York's oldest museum, a distinguished library and print room, and collections spanning three centuries. Family programs including storytelling, crafts, live theater and other activities are offered on weekends

New York Mercantile Exchange
The trading pits have been centers of drama, history, and financial excitement for more than 125 years. Now you can trace this history at the new museum, and catch the excitement of New York's largest commodities exchange as you view trading first-hand from our visitors galleries.

New York Transit Museum
The Museum explores the development of the greater New York Metropolitan region through the presentations of exhibitions, tours, educational programs, and workshops dealing with the cultural, social, and technological history of public transportation.

New York Unearthed
In every city, old structures are torn down and new ones rise in their place. But bits and pieces of the old remain beneath the new. To uncover this past history, archaeologists dig through the earth in layers. At New York Unearthed, South Street Seaport's urban archaeology center, you'll be able to piece together 6,000 years of history through dioramas and artifacts excavated from New York City's archaeological sites.

Noble Maritime Collection
The mission of the Noble Maritime Collection is to preserve and interpret the art, writings, and historical maritime artifacts of the distinguished marine artist, John A. Noble; to continue Noble's legacy of celebrating the people and traditions of the working waterfront of New York Harbor; to preserve and interpret the history of  Sailors' Snug Harbor in its collections, exhibitions and programs; and to operate a maritime study center inspired by John A. Noble and the mariners of Sailors' Snug Harbor. 

Queens County Farm Museum
Dating back to 1697, this working farm encompasses a 47-acre parcel that is the longest continuously farmed site in New York State. The site includes historic farm buildings, a greenhouse complex, livestock, farm vehicles and implements, planting fields, an orchard and herb garden.

Queens Museum of Art
The Queens Museum of Art presents artistic and educational programs and exhibitions that directly relate to the contemporary urban life of its constituents while maintaining the highest standards of professional, intellectual, and ethical responsibility.

Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is a cultural and educational institution dedicated to the art of the Himalayas. The RMA collection consists of paintings, sculptures, and textiles. Although works of art range in date over two millennia, most reflect major periods and schools of Himalayan art from the 12th century onward.

Sculpture Center
SculptureCenter’s programs identify new talent, explore the conceptual, aesthetic and material concerns of contemporary sculpture, and encourage independent vision through solo exhibitions of mid-career and established artists.

Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the city's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. Through exhibitions, programs and publications, the museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Snug Harbor is a cultural center set within an 83-acre National Historic Landmark district containing the finest collection of Greek Revival buildings in the United States, plus Beaux Arts, Italianate and Victorian style architecture.

Sony Wonder Technology Lab
A Free Technology and Entertainment Museum for All Ages. Sony Wonder Technology Lab is a favorite destination for New Yorkers and out-of-town guests! The museum is located in the heart of midtown Manhattan in New York City at 56th Street and Madison Avenue.

South Street Seaport Museum
The museum is located on the site of what was once this country's leading port and is now a twelve-square-block historic district in lower Manhattan. South Street provides visitors with an unforgettable glimpse into a past where 18th– and 19th–century buildings line stone-paved streets; sea-laden breezes waft off the river; and the nation's largest wholesale fish market still operates.

Staten Island Children's Museum
The Staten Island Children's Museum appeals to the intrepid explorer in every child.  Interactive exhibitions and creative workshops offer plenty of opportunities for hands-on, first hand experiences that nurture children's natural curiosity and creativity. Visits to the museum launch children on a voyage of discovery - about themselves and the world around them.

Staten Island Institute of the Arts
New York City's only general interest museum, explores the arts, natural science, and local history through permanent and changing exhibitions and welcomes over 65,000 adults and school children to a comprehensive array of programs.

Taipei Gallery
Since its opening, the Taipei Gallery has exhibited both ancient Chinese arts and contemporary arts from Taiwan.Most exhibitions come from major museums and private collections in Taiwan. In addition to introducing Taiwan's modern art, the gallery is a venue for artists from around the world whose works relate to Chinese culture and society.

The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality

The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library
A free museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America,through the twentieth century.

The Studio Museum
The Studio Museum in Harlem offers a range of educational experiences. Through the Department of Education and Public Programs, programmatic experiences are developed to engage a diverse cross section of artists of various disciplines, including writers, scholars, musicians and critics who share their perspectives on contemporary subjects.

Theodore Roosevelt's BirthPlace
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, lived at this site from his birth on October 27, 1858 until he was 14 years old. The reconstructed house contains five period rooms, two museum galleries and a bookstore.

Van Courtland House Museum
Van Cortlandt House is a mid-18th century Georgian dwelling that once served as the focal point of a large and prosperous grain plantation and milling operation.

Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney, one of only a few museums in New York City that focuses entirely on American art, featuring a large permanent collection and fine changing exhibitions of contemporary and modern American Art.

Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
New York City’s oldest structure and one of the oldest wooden frame houses in the country. It was the first site to be designated a Landmark upon the creation of the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968.