Resources

CUNY ARTS—Free or Reduced Admission for CUNY Students to Museums

  • As part of City University of New York, Guttman Community College has access to CUNY Arts.
  • The program offers free or discounted admission to many New York City cultural venues.
  • Here’s a listing of institutions with free* or suggested admission prices for CUNY ID holders: (Note: “Pay what you wish” means you can pay whatever you want—even 25 cents!

Suggested admission is NOT a required amount! Ignore that number and just pay what you can for any museum that’s “pay what you wish” or “suggested admission.”)

Additional Free Museum Times

This is useful for your friends and family if you’d like to bring someone along when you go to a museum for class (which I encourage!), or for after you have graduated from CUNY. (Check these hours on a museum’s website before you go—they may have recently changed.)

  • ALWAYS FREE(or pay what you wish):

American Folk Art Museum

American Museum of Natural History (pay what you wish)

Bronx Museum (pay what you wish)

Brooklyn Museum (pay what you wish)

The Cloisters (pay what you wish)

El Museo del Barrio (pay what you wish)

Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College

Green-Wood Cemetery

The Hispanic Society of America

International Print Center

Metropolitan Museum of Art (pay what you wish)

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

National Museum of the American Indian—Smithsonian Institution

New York City Police Museum (pay what you wish)

P.S.1 MoMA (pay what you wish)

Queens Botanical Garden (free Nov-March)

Queens Museum of Art (pay what you wish)

SculptureCenter (pay what you wish)

Socrates Sculpture Park

Staten Island Museum (pay what you wish)

Storefront for Art & Architecture

Studio Museum in Harlem (pay what you wish)

Waterfront Museum

  • MONTHLY FREE HOURS:

Bronx Museum (First Friday, 6-10 pm)

Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Second Weekend, before 11 am)

Brooklyn Museum (First Saturday, 5-11 pm)

El Museo del Barrio (Third Saturday, 11 am-8 pm)

Neue Gallerie (First Friday, 6-8 pm)

Noguchi Museum (First Friday, pay what you wish

 

  • WEEKLY FREE DAYS or HOURS:
  • MONDAY

Museum at Eldridge Street

  • TUESDAY

9/11 Memorial Museum 5-8 pm

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Staten Island Museum 12-2 pm

Wave Hill 9 am-noon

  • TUESDAY

Bronx Zoo (pay what you wish)

Museum of Jewish Heritage 4-8 pm

New York Botanical Garden

Queens Botanical Garden April-October, 3-6 pm

Van Cortlandt House Museum

Yeshiva University Museum 5-8 pm

  • TUESDAY

China Institute 6-8 pm

International Center of Photography 6-9 pm (pay what you wish)

Museum of Arts and Design 6-9 pm (pay what you wish)

Museum of Chinese in America

New Museum 7-9 pm

Trinity Church: Concerts at One 1-2 pm (September through May)

  • FRIDAY

Japan Society 6-9 pm

Morgan Library & Museum 7-9 pm

Museum of Modern Art 4-8 pm

Neue Galerie 6-8 pm

New-York Historical Society 6-8 pm (pay what you wish)

New York Aquarium 3 pm-closing (pay what you wish)

New York Hall of Science 2-5 pm (September through June)

Rubin Museum of Art 7-10 pm

Staten Island Museum 12-2 pm

Whitney Museum of American Art 7-9:30 pm

  • SATURDAY

Brooklyn Botanic Garden 10 am-noon

Jewish Museum

New York Botanical Garden 10 am-noon

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 5:45-7:45 pm (pay what you wish)

Wave Hill 9 am-noon

  • SUNDAY

Frick Collection 11 am-1 pm (pay what you wish)

New York Hall of Science 10-11 am (September through June)

Queens Botanical Garden April-October, 4-6 pm

Studio Museum in Harlem

  • If there’s a museum you still can’t get into for free, try Culture Pass with your free Brooklyn, Queens, or New York Public Library card.
  • Free application to see what gallery shows are available in your area: See Saw App
  • Free weekly email blast detailing free arts events in NYC: ArtCards