NYC ATTRACTIONS ON A BUDGET
Hello Bearcats!Here at Baruch College, we pride ourselves with making New York City our campus. Here is a list of museums you can enter for free or with a reduced fee as a CUNY student. Don’t forget to take your student ID with you to take advantage of the student discounts!
Museums free for CUNY students
The Frick Collection
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
The Jewish Museum
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
El Museo Del Barrio
Museum Of The City of New York
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)/MOMA PS1
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum
The Shed
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Poster House
American Folk Art Museum
BRIC Rotunda Gallery
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx Zoo: Free for college students
Green-Wood Cemetery
International Print Center
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning: Gallery admission only
Kentler International Drawing Space
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
National Museum of the American Indian—Smithsonian Institution
The Center for Book Arts
The Public Theatre’s New York Shakespeare Festival
Queens County Farm Museum
Queens Museum of Art
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens
Socrates Sculpture Park
Storefront for Art & Architecture
Museums with suggested admission for CUNY students (pay what you wish)
American Museum of Natural History
Brooklyn Museum
Flushing Town Hall: Gallery admission only
King Manor Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Breuer
The Met Cloisters
Queens Museum of Art
Sculpture Center
Staten Island Museum
Studio Museum in Harlem
Museums with weekly free days or hours
Monday
Museum at Eldridge Street: pay what you wish
Yeshiva University Museum: 5-8 pm
Tuesday
China Institute: 6-8 pm
Wave Hill: 9 am-noon
Wednesday
Bronx Zoo: pay what you wish
Frick Collection: pay what you wish between 2-6 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage: 4-8 pm
New York Botanical Garden: grounds admission
Queens Botanical Garden: April-October, 3-6 pm
Staten Island Zoo: 2pm-closing
Van Cortlandt House Museum
Yeshiva University Museum: 5-8 pm
Thursday
Brooklyn Children’s Museum: pay what you wish between 2-6 pm
China Institute: 6-8 pm
Museum of Arts and Design: pay what you wish between 6-9 pm
Museum of Chinese in America: first Thursday of each month
New Museum: pay what you wish between 7-9 pm
Friday
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: 8am – 12pm | March-Nov.
International Center for Photography: pay what you wish between 5-8pm
Japan Society: 6-9 pm
Morgan Library & Museum: 7-9 pm
Museum of Modern Art: 4-8 pm
Museum of the Moving Image: 4-8 pm
New York Aquarium: pay what you wish between 3pm-closing
New York Hall of Science: September through June between 2-5 pm
Staten Island Historical Society – Historic Richmond Town
Staten Island Museum: 12-2 pm
Yeshiva University Museum 11am – 2:30pm
Saturday
Guggenheim Museum; pay what you wish between 5-7:45 pm
New York Botanical Garden: grounds admission between 9-10 am
Wave Hill :9 am-noon
Sunday
New York Hall of Science: 10-11 am September-June
For more information, visit:
CUNY: Free Access