Free Museum Hopping in New York City

[Nicholas Kontis]

There are about 80 museums in New York City. Most of them are in Manhattan,
and nine of those museums are located along what's called New York City Museum
Mile, along Fifth Avenue.

 

The American Museum of Natual History

 

Museum Mile begins with the New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art at Fifth Avenue and 82 St. (1000 Fifth Ave,
New York City, NY, 10028) and ends with the Museum of El Barrio on Fifth
Avenue and 104 Street (1230 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10029). In between, there
are the Guggenheim Museum at 89 St. (1071 Fifth Ave., New York City, NY
10128), the Cooper Hewitt Museum at 91 St. (2 E. 91 St. New York City, NY
10128), the Jewish Museum at 92 St. (1109 Fifth Ave., New York City, NY
10128), and Museum of the City of New York at 103 St.(1220 Fifth Ave, New
York City, NY, 10029)

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

American Museum of Natural History is
located right across Central Park from the Metropolitan Museum, at 79 St. and
Central Park West (New York City, NY 10024). The New York Historical
Society is just next door, on Central Park West at 77 St. (170 Central Park
West, New York City, NY 10024) As you see, you can do a lot of museum hopping
within a very short distance, and while you're at it, don't miss the best New
York museum of them all: The Frick Collection, at 1 E 70 St. between
Madison and Fifth Aves. At this tiny gem of a museum, every piece is a
masterpiece, and it takes only about an hour and a half to view the entire
collection.

Guggenheim Museum

 

Please keep in mind as well that admission policy to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History and Museum of the
City of New York is "pay-what-you-wish," although American Museum of
Natural History usually does charge additional fees for special exhibitions.

Other museums very often have free admission nights. For example, the
Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum often have free admission on Friday
nights, The Jewish Museum on Saturdays, and so on. So whenever you plan to visit
a particular museum, it's worth giving them a call to inquire about their free
admission night. Sometimes those free admission nights are mentioned on their
tape recording, but rather often they are not, and so it makes sense to speak to
a live person when you inquire about free admission night.