What's Up in NY This Month?

February Edition

Feb 01, 2026

What’s up party people! Welcome back to the monthly museum guide

Here’s how it’ll go:

Highlights of my current favorite exhibits
Exhibits that are closing this month
Full list of NYC museums & their current exhibits
Then guides for:

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Highlights

^{Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson}^|^{The Met}^{| Through}^{February 8th}^{For over 6 decades, the American artist John Wilson made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial, social, and economic justice, but Wilson’s work has not received the recognition it deserves. The exhibition features over 100 artworks made over the course of Wilson’s career, many of which have not been shown before.}
^{Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family}^|^{The Met}^|^Through^{March 8th}^{Emily Sargent’s incredible watercolors—recently rediscovered & gifted from the artists’ heirs—capture the world with a clarity & expressiveness that were all her own. Yet they were overlooked in comparison with her brother, revealing the challenges women artists faced in the late 19th century.}
^{Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck} ^|^{The Met}^|^Through^{April 5th}^{Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Overcoming immense personal struggles, she produced a powerful body of work through sheer force of will. This exhibition affirms her rightful place in the story of modern art.}
^**^{The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York}^|^{The Met}^|^Through^{May 31st}^{Born in a Native American village, George Morrison overcame many challenges—poverty, a life-threatening childhood illness, social isolation, racial & cultural barriers—to become a leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York & beyond.}
^{The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy}^|^{Poster House}^{| Through}^{Feb 22}
^{An incredible exhibit that showcases how the fascist government influenced the artists living in its grasp.}
^{Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters}^|^{Poster House}^|^Through^{Feb 22}
^{A pivotal exhibit that marked a turning point in American graphic design}
^{Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream}^|^MoMA^|^Through^{April 11th}
^{The often overlooked Cuban Modernist’s exhibit is a wonder & delight.}
^{Ideas of Africa: Portraiture & Political Imagination}^|^MoMA^|^Through^{July 25th}^{Can a photographic portrait inspire political imagination? This exhibition examines how photographers & their sitters contributed to the proliferation of Pan-African solidarity during the mid-20th century.}
^{Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective} ^|^MoMA^|^Through^{February 7th}^{Featuring some 300 artworks, this exhibit charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works.}
^{New York, New York}^|^{NY Historical}^{| Through}^{August 10th}
^{A delight of an exhibit with so many depictions of our beloved city from different movements.}
^{The Gay Harlem Renaissance}^|^{NY Historical}^{| Through}^{March 8th}^{A thrilling exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in the richness of Black LGBTQ+ life in the 1920s & 1930s.}
^{Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World}^|^Guggenheim^|^Through^{April 26th}^{Gabriele Münter was at the forefront of modern art in early 20th-century Europe. Constantly experimenting, she revitalized landscape, still life, and portrait painting, transforming everyday subjects into bold, original works.}

Closing this Month

^**^{Man Ray: When Objects Dream}^|^{The Met}^{| Through}^{February 1st}^{Man Ray was a visionary known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture & film. The exhibition will highlight the central role of the rayograph in Man Ray’s boundary-breaking practice.}

^**^{Monet and Venice}^|^{The Brooklyn Museum}^{| Through}^{February 1st}^{Monet and Venice is the first exhibition to focus on Monet’s luminous Venetian paintings—a radiant yet underexplored chapter in the artist’s late career—since their debut in 1912.}

^{Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection} ^|^MoMA^|^Through^{February 2nd}^{Can a photograph open a portal to another world? This exhibit presents a selection of extraordinary works that each offer entry into a moment in photography’s history. These objects transport viewers across geographic and temporal distances, or into spaces constructed entirely within the boundaries of a photographic print.}

^**^{Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective} ^|^MoMA^|^Through^{February 7th}^{Featuring some 300 artworks, this exhibit charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works.}

^{Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep} ^|^MoMA^|^Through^{February 8th}^{The paintings in this exhibition offer a succinct exploration of Frankenthaler’s ongoing experiments & material investigations.}

^**^{Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson}^|^{The Met}^|^Through^{February 8th}^{For over 6 decades, the American artist John Wilson made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial, social, and economic justice, but Wilson’s work has not received the recognition it deserves. The exhibition features over 100 artworks made over the course of Wilson’s career, many of which have not been shown before.}

^**^{Renoir Drawings}^|^{The Morgan Library}^{| Through}^{February 8th}^{While the paintings of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) have become icons of Impressionism, his drawings, watercolors, and pastels are far less widely known. This exhibition explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions, and interpret both landscape and the human figure.}

^{Ken Ohara: Contacts}^| ^{The Whitney}^| ^Through^{February 8th}^{In 1974 New York–based photographer Ken Ohara initiated a kind of photographic chain letter, choosing a stranger at random from the local telephone book and mailing them his camera pre-loaded with film. By inviting participants to document their own lives, Ohara relinquished photographic control in favor of portraying the country’s vastness through the eyes of strangers.}

^{Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200}^|^{The Brooklyn Museum}^|^Through^{February 22nd}^{Comprising three chapters that boast both longtime favorites and brand-new standouts, the exhibition brings fresh narratives to the fore while exploring the collection’s rich history and future evolution.}

^**^{The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy}^|^{Poster House}^{| Through}^{February 22nd}^{Chronicling the length of Mussolini’s regime, focusing on the often blurred line between propaganda & art and how his regime was a fascist movement inspired by art, clawing into advertising, propaganda, & the very heart of the nation & its art.}

^**^{Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters}^|^{Poster House}^|^Through^{February 22nd}^{The posters Dorothy created for the NPS mark a turning point in American graphic design. The series was the first time the government had assigned such an ambitious project to a single designer, let alone a female modernist & heralded an outpouring of government posters for the rest of the 20th century.}

^{Urban Stomp}^|^{The Museum of the City of New York}^{| Through}^{February 22nd}^{Celebrating NYC dance culture, this exhibit explores over 200 years of NYC dance, exploring the dances that have shaped—and been shaped by—the city’s cultural landscape.}

Museum Exhibits

MOMA

^{Free every Friday 5:30-8:30}

^**^{Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective} ^|^Through^{February 7th}^{Featuring some 300 artworks, this exhibit charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works.}

^{Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep} ^|^Through^{February 8th}^{The paintings in this exhibition offer a succinct exploration of Frankenthaler’s ongoing experiments & material investigations.}

^**^{Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream}^|^Through^{April 11th}^{An often overlooked modernist master, Wifredo Lam’s paintings expanded the horizons of modernism by creating a meaningful space for the beauty and depth of Black diasporic culture.}

^{Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography}^{| Through}^{May 21st}^{This exhibition examines how film studio produced photographic portraits were manipulated for public consumption in the decades before digital tools, AI technology & social media revolutionized the process.}

^{The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Towe}^r^{| Through}^{July 12th}^{Explore architect Kisho Kurokawa’s radical vision for urban living with a fully restored capsule from the revolutionary 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo.}

^**^{Ideas of Africa: Portraiture & Political Imagination}^{| Through}^{July 25th}^{Can a photographic portrait inspire political imagination? This exhibition examines how photographers & their sitters contributed to the proliferation of Pan-African solidarity during the mid-20th century.}

The Met

^{Always Pay What You Wish, open until 9 on Fridays & Saturdays}

^**^{Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson}^|^Through^{February 8th}^{For over 6 decades, the American artist John Wilson made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial, social, and economic justice, but Wilson’s work has not received the recognition it deserves. The exhibition features over 100 artworks made over the course of Wilson’s career, many of which have not been shown before.}

^**^{Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family}^|^Through^{March 8th}^{Emily Sargent’s incredible watercolors—recently rediscovered & gifted from the artists’ heirs—capture the world with a clarity & expressiveness that were all her own. Yet they were overlooked in comparison with her brother, revealing the challenges women artists faced in the late 19th century.}

^**^{Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck} ^|^Through^{April 5th}^{Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Overcoming immense personal struggles, she produced a powerful body of work through sheer force of will. This exhibition affirms her rightful place in the story of modern art.}

^{View Finding: Selections from The Walther Collection}^|^Through^{May 3rd}^{In modern & contemporary photographs from an esteemed private collection, artists use the camera to navigate shifting terrain. Registering and reshaping environments in flux, they look anew at how we traverse them.}

^Fanmania ^|^Through^{May 12th}^{The hand-held fan was an unexpected muse for some of the most innovative artists in 19th-century Europe. Fanmania investigates why avant-garde artists incorporated fans into their work and sheds light on themes of gender, courtship, consumerism, and appropriation.}

^**^{The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York}^|^Through^{May 31st}^{Born in a Native American village, George Morrison overcame many challenges—poverty, a life-threatening childhood illness, social isolation, racial & cultural barriers—to become a leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York & beyond.}

^Revolution! ^|^Through^{August 6th}^{This special installation marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Featured works offer a wide view of the roots, course & aftermath of the Revolutionary War—from early conflicts between colonists & Indigenous peoples to George Washington’s voluntary retirement, in 1797, from his two-term presidency.}

The Brooklyn Museum

^{Always PWYW}

^{Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200}^|^Through^{February 22nd}^{Comprising three chapters that boast both longtime favorites and brand-new standouts, the exhibition brings fresh narratives to the fore while exploring the collection’s rich history and future evolution.}

^**^{Christian Marclay: Doors}^|^Through^{April 12th}^{Marclay’s latest cinematic exploration of the meaning behind everyday objects. Shifting his attention to doors, which Marclay describes as “rich with symbolism, commonplace, yet unfamiliar,” this film throws viewers into an endless loop of entering & exiting.}

^{Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens}^|^Through^{May 17th}^{Encounter an artist who changed the face of portrait photography. Seydou Keïta. More than 280 works include iconic prints, never-before-seen portraits, textiles, and Keïta’s personal artifacts.}

^{Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations}^|^Through^{July 5th}^{Rebellion can be big, loud & unmissable—or quiet, subtle & deeply personal, this exhibition reveals how contemporary artists infuse daily life with mindful gestures of creative defiance.}

Poster House

^{Free all day Friday until 9 pm}

^**^{The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy}^|^Through^{February 22nd}^{Chronicling the length of Mussolini’s regime, focusing on the often blurred line between propaganda & art and how his regime was a fascist movement inspired by art, clawing into advertising, propaganda, & the very heart of the nation & its art.}

^**^{Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters}^|^Through^{February 22nd}^{The posters Dorothy created for the NPS mark a turning point in American graphic design. The series was the first time the government had assigned such an ambitious project to a single designer, let alone a female modernist & heralded an outpouring of government posters for the rest of the 20th century.}

^{Utopia in Our Time: The Posters of Molly Crabapple}^|^Through^{April 12th}^{Enchanting, haunting & poignant, beloved illustrator Molly Crabapple’s posters showcase the resilience of community, the power in solidarity & the spirit of celebration.}

^{Art for Art House: The Posters of Peter Strausfeld}^|^Through^{April 12th}^{From 1947-80, Strausfeld created unique, compelling posters for London’s Academy Cinema. They remain some of the most unique examples of localized cinema advertising in movie history.}

New York Historical Society

^{Pay What You Wish every Friday 5-8}

^**^{The Gay Harlem Renaissance}^{| Through}^{March 8th}^{A thrilling exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in the richness of Black LGBTQ+ life in the 1920s & 1930s.}

^{Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The Collections}^|^Through^{March 29th}^{View the immigrant experience in New York through the faces and places photographers have captured over time.}

^{The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes} ^|^Through^{March 29th}^{A powerful new audio installation presents for the first time selections from the audio archive of Shoah, the landmark documentary by French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann.}

^{Declaring the Revolution: America’s Printed Path to Independence}^|^Through^{April 12th}^{Experience the greatness of the American Revolution through rare, historical printings from the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection}

^{The New York Sari} ^|^Through^{April 26th}^{Showcases the deep influence that South Asians have had on the culture of New York City and how individuals have drawn strength from tradition while looking clearly towards a bolder future of inclusion and progress.}

^**^{New York, New York}^|^Through^{August 6th}^{A stunning showcase honoring the Big Apple—from its bustling harbors to its Harlem diners, Village speakeasies, sleek skyscrapers, and gritty streetscapes.}

The Whitney

^{Free every Friday 5:30-10}

^{Ken Ohara: Contacts}^| ^Through^{February 8th}^{In 1974 New York–based photographer Ken Ohara initiated a kind of photographic chain letter, choosing a stranger at random from the local telephone book and mailing them his camera pre-loaded with film. By inviting participants to document their own lives, Ohara relinquished photographic control in favor of portraying the country’s vastness through the eyes of strangers.}

^{High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100}^| ^Through^{March 9th}^{In 1926 as a young American artist living in Paris, Alexander Calder’s began making what is today considered his most formative work of art: Calder’s Circus. Calder created a miniature spectacle of circus animals and characters that he would enact for live audiences, complete with handmade stage props, music, and lighting.}

^{Claes Oldenburg: Drawn From Life}^|^Through^{April 9th}^{This exhibition shows how Oldenbeurg’s works attests to his wide range as a draftsman and expanded definition of life drawing.}

The Frick

^{Free every Wednesday 2:30- 5:30}

^{Flora Yukhnovich’s Four Seasons}^{| Through}^{March 9th}^{Taking inspiration from the French Rococo, Italian Baroque & Abstract Expressionist movements, Flora Yukhnovich creates work that is at once modern & timeless.}

The Guggenheim

^{PWYW Every Tuesday & Sunday from 4-5:30 pm}

^**^{Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World}^|^Through^{April 26th}^{Gabriele Münter was at the forefront of modern art in early 20th-century Europe. Constantly experimenting, she revitalized landscape, still life, and portrait painting, transforming everyday subjects into bold, original works.}

^{Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped}^|^Through^{May 3rd}^{This exhibition features seminal works from the Guggenheim’s collection along with major loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which together highlight the artist’s radical use of materials and media.}

^{Modern European Currents}^|^Ongoing^{At the beginning of the 20th century, influenced by sweeping social and economic changes and energized by the avant-garde, artists across Europe reimagined the possibilities of painting to reflect their rapidly changing world.}

The Studio Museum

^{Always Pay What You Wish. Free on Sundays.}

^{Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History & Community}^|^Through^{April 12th}^{This exhibition, which marks the 25th anniversary of Expanding the Walls, features photographs across the program’s years, offering a glimpse into the people, places, and moments that define a teenager’s world.}

^{From the Studio: Artist-in-Residence}^|^Through^{February 15th}^{Sited in the new artist in residence studios, this installation recognizes the enduring impact of the Museum’s signature program. Nearly all former artists in residence are represented through a combination of newly commissioned works on paper, objects from the Museum’s collection & art on loan.}

Museum of the Moving Image

^{Free Thursdays 2-6 pm}

^{The Jim Henson Exhibition} ^|^Ongoing^{This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.}

The Museum of the City of New York

^{Always Pay What You Wish}

^{Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World}^|^Through^{April 19th}^{Regarded as one of the most influential photographers of postwar NYC, his irreverent approach to art-making pushed the envelope, reshaping the art world in New York & around the world.}

^{Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor}^{| Through}^{February 22nd}^{Celebrating NYC dance culture, this exhibit explores over 200 years of NYC dance, exploring the dances that have shaped—and been shaped by—the city’s cultural landscape.}

^**^{New York at Its Core}^{| Ongoing}^{Framed around the key themes of money, density, diversity, and creativity, New York City’s 400 year history comes alive in this exhibition.}

^{Activist NY}^{| Ongoing}^{Exhibition on social activism in New York City from the 17th century until now}

^{The Stettheimer Dollhouse in a New Light}^|^Ongoing^{With furnishings handcrafted over nearly two decades by Carrie Stettheimer, the dollhouse vividly captures the essence of New York in the vibrant post-World War I era.}

^{Songs of New York}^|^Ongoing^{An immersive interactive experience focusing on music from and about NYC, from the 1920s to the 2020s, across genres, boroughs, and musical movements.}

Neue Galerie

^{Free First Fridays of the month 5-8}

^{Egon Schiele: Portrait of Dr. Erwin Von Graff}^|^Through^{May 4th}^{This exhibit considers how Dr. Von Graff’s medical practice & personal support of Schiele influenced one of the most expressive & psychologically charged bodies of work in modern art.}

^{Dagobert Peche: Ornamental Genius}^|^Through^{May 4th}^{A spotlight on one of the greatest Austrian decorative artists of his generation.}

^{German & Austrian Masterworks} ^{| Ongoing}^{Highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of German & Austrian art from the 1890-1940.}

Cooper Hewitt

^{PWYW the last hour of the day}

^{Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3} ^{| Through}^{July 19th}^{Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion.}

^{Made in America}^|^Through^{October 4th}^{Brings together more than 70 large-format photographs captured by Christopher Payne over a decade-long photographic journey to learn more about the craft of both industrial and artisanal making in the United States.}

The Morgan Library

^{Free every Friday 5-8 tickets}^here

^{Renoir Drawings}^|^Through^{February 8th}^{While the paintings of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) have become icons of Impressionism, his drawings, watercolors, and pastels are far less widely known. This exhibition explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions, and interpret both landscape and the human figure.}

^{Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit”} ^|^Through^{April 19th}^{This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, an important early work by Caravaggio. Caravaggio brought to Rome a tradition of naturalism that stretched back to Leonardo da Vinci’s work in Milan. He combined this tradition, however, with a revolutionary approach to painting that shattered the illusion of art and instead celebrated the artifice of the studio.}

^{Giovanni Bellini’s “Pietà” Restored} ^|^Through^{April 19th}^{The early Renaissance masterpiece Pietà (also known as Dead Christ Supported by Angels, ca. 1470) by Giovanni Bellini (1424/26–1516) will be on view in the United States for the first time, on loan from the Museo della Città in Rimini, Italy.}

^{Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling} ^|^Through^{May 3rd}^{Combining diverse artworks from across the Morgan’s collections and some exceptional loans, Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytellingexplores how stories shape our world.}

American Folk Art Museum

^{Always free}

^**^{An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles} ^{| Through}^{March 1st}^{This exhibition brings together approximately 30 examples, spanning the 18th to 20th centuries, from the Museum’s rich collection of more than 600 quilts and presents them from an ecological perspective, tracing patterns of relationships between the environment and traditional quilting practices.}

The Met Cloisters

^{Always pay what you wish}

^{Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages} ^{| Through}^{March 29th}^{This exhibition explores the often-overlooked themes of desire, sexuality, and gender in the medieval past, a period of time when most artistic production served religious purposes.}

Museum of Art and Design

^{Free first Thursday of every month from 5–8 PM July- Sept}

^{Designing Motherhood}^|^Through^{March 15th}^{Exploring the arc of human reproduction through a design lens, inviting audiences to consider how designs developed over the last 150 years have shaped reproductive health.}

^{Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture}^{| Through}^{March 15th}^{Exploring how Afrofuturism materializes in jewelry design to build aesthetic & cultural bridges between Black communities, countries, continents & histories torn apart by colonialism, slavery & oppression.}

^{The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler}^{| Through}^{April 19th}^{An invitation into the glamorous, witty & wonderful universe of celebrated potter & designer Jonathan Adler. A playful and irreverent perspective on craft history, the exhibition illuminates the designer’s love of objects, materials & the makers whose legacies precede his own.}

ICP

^{$5 on Thursdays from 5-8}

^{Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation}^{| Through}^{May 4th}^{This exhibition takes a new approach to the story of Atget’s career, drawing particular attention to the role that Berenice Abbott played in shaping Atget’s posthumous rise in influence.}

^{HARD COPY NEW YORK}^{| Through}^{May 4th}^{An expanded iteration of Aaron Stern’s ongoing project exploring the contemporary use of the photocopied image, the exhibition uses the visual language of the copy machine to evoke nostalgia for a time of more deliberate picture making.}

^{Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré}^{| Through}^{May 4th}^{Latitudes supports contemporary creation takes its name from a geographical concept, affirming its ambition to shed light on artists from scenes that are still underrepresented on the international stage.}

Weekly Free or Pay What You Wish Museum Hours

^{Poster House | Free}^every^{Friday until 9}
^{New Museum | Pay What You Wish}^every^Thursday^7-9
^{The Met |}^{Open til 9}^every^{Friday & Sat}^{with music! Always}^{pay what you wish}
^{The Historical Society}^|^{Pay what you wish}^every^Friday^from^5-8
^{The Whitney | Free}^every^{Friday until 10 pm}^{tickets usually sell out so get on em}^here
^{Cooper Hewitt |} ^{Pay-what-you-wish}^the^{last hour of the day}
^{Morgan Library |}^Free^every^{Friday eve}^{and they have jazz! But you gotta get tix in advance}^here
^{Guggenheim | Pay-what-you-wish}^every^{Saturday 4-5:30}
^{Museum of Moving Image | Free}^on^Thursdays^from^2-6
^{MOMA | Free}^every^Friday^until^8:30^{tickets usually sell out so get on em}^here
^{The Frick | Free}^every^{Wednesday 1:30-5:30}

Monthly Free or Pay What You Wish Museum Hours

^{The Whitney}^|^Free^Second^Sundays
^{The Whitney}^|^Free^Third^Sundays
^{Neue Galerie}^{| First}^{Fridays 5-8}
^{Noguchi Museum}^{| First}^Friday^(PWYW)^Get^tix^{in advance}^{- it fills up quickly!}
^{Japan Society |}^Free^5-7pm^{on the}^{first Friday}^{of the month}
^{Brooklyn Museum |}^{First Saturdays}^tickets^{Feb - Jun, Aug, Oct 5-11pm}
^{Museum of Art Design | Free}^first^{Thursdays until 8, July- Sept}

Museums that are always Free or Pay What You Wish

^{Museum at FIT}
^{Natural History Museum}
^{American Folk Art Museum}
^{The Brooklyn Museum}
^{The Met}
^{Museums of the City of New York}
^{El Museo del Barrio}
^{Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art}
^{MoMA PS1}
^{Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology}
^{National Museum of the American Indian – Smithsonian}
^{Print Center New York}

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