List of Free Activities and Entertainment

Under Construction

Always Free:
African Burial Ground Memorial Site (NYC)
Federal Hall National Memorial (NYC)
General Grant National Memorial (NYC)
Hamilton Grange (birthplace of Alexander Hamilton) (NYC)
Irish Hunger Memorial (NYC)
Museum of American Illustration (NYC)
Museum of Biblical Art (NYC)
National Museum of the American Indian (NYC)
New York Transit Museum Annex & Store, Grand Central Terminal (NYC)
Queens County Farm Museum (NYC)
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (NYC)
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden (grounds and botanical garden only) (NYC)
Socrates Sculpture Park (NYC)
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (NYC)
The Bronx Museum of the Arts (NYC)
The Federal Reserve Bank (NYC)
The Harbor Defense Museum (NYC)
The Hispanic Society of America (NYC)
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (NYC)
The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (NYC)
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (NYC)

Specials:
          Clearwater Marine Aquarium (Clearwater, FL)
                    Buy 1 Admission Get 1 Free  |  Expires 03/22/2013
                    Print Coupon at this web page:
                    http://www.valpak.com/coupons/printable/CLEARWATER-MARINE-AQUARIUM/9706

          Georgia Aquarium (GA)
                    Georgia Residents: Free admission on your birthday.
                    Show proof of birthday with either a valid ID or copy of your birth certificate.
                    Read More >>

          Mystic Aquarium ( Mystic, CT)
                    Receive one free admission with the purchase of one full-priced adult admission.
                    Offer expires 4/1/13. Must print out and present the folowing web page:                
                    http://www.aquarion.com/CT.cfm/section/FreeAdmissionTickets/page/mysticaquarium

          The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk (Norwalk, CT)
                    Offering free general admission to Newtown residents, educators, first responders
                    and their families for all of 2013,


Free On Specific Days:
          Mondays:
                    Museum at Eldridge Street (tours, 10am to noon) (NYC)

          Tuesdays:
                    The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Brooklyn, NYC)
                    Morgan Library and Museum (The McKim Rooms only) (NYC)
                    Wave Hill (free all day, November through April and July and August; 9am to noon in May, 
                              June, September and October) (NYC)

          Wednesdays:
                    Bronx Zoo - Donations (NYC)
                    Museum of Jewish Heritage (NYC) (4 to 8pm)
                    New York Botanical Garden (NYC)
                    Queens Botanical Garden  (Queens, NYC)   |   Through October 31 from 3-6 pm)
                    Staten Island Zoo (Staten Island, NYC)   |   After 2pm
                    Heckscher Museum of Art   |  Huntington Township Residents Only,  After 2:00 pm

          Thursdays:
                    Brooklyn Children's Museum  |  Every third Thursday of the month from 4:00–7:00 pm
                    Museum of Chinese in America (NYC)
                    Museum of Arts and Design (pay what you will, 6 to 9pm) (NYC)
                    New Museum (7 to 9pm) (NYC)

          Fridays:
                    Asia Society  (NYC)(September through June, 6 to 9pm)
                    Children's Museum of Manhattan (NYC) First Friday of every month, from 5 – 8pm 
                    Historic Richmond Town  (NYC)(1 to 5pm)
                    International Center of Photography  (NYC)(pay what you will, after 5pm)
                    Japan Society  (NYC)(6 to 9pm) 
                    Morgan Library and Museum  (NYC)(7 to 9pm)
                    Museum of Modern Art  (NYC)(4 to 8pm)
                    Museum of the Moving Image  (NYC)(4 to 8pm)
                    New York Aquarium  (Brooklyn, NYC)(Donation, after 3pm)
                    New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY) | September through June Only  |  Fridays, 2 – 5 pm;
                    Rubin Museum of Art (NYC)   |   6 to 10 pm
                    The New-York Historical Society  (NYC)(pay what you will, 6 to 8pm)
                    Whitney Museum of American Art  (NYC)(pay what you will, 6 to 9pm)

          Saturdays:
                    New York Botanical Garden  (NYC)(free grounds pass, 10 to 11am)
                    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  (NYC)(pay what you will, 5:45 to 7:45pm)
                    The Brooklyn Botanic Garden  (NYC)(10am to noon)
                    The Jewish Museum (NYC)
                    Wave Hill  (NYC)(9am to noon)
                    Heckscher Museum of Art  |  Huntington Township Residents Only, Before 1:00 pm

          Sundays:
                    New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY) 
                              September through June Only | Sundays, 10 – 11 am
                    Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC)
                    The Morgan Library and Museum (NYC) (The McKim Rooms only, 4 to 6pm)
                    Museum of Biblical Art (NYC)                        
                    New York Hall of Science (Queens, NYC)
                              September through June  |   Fridays, 2 – 5 pm;  Sundays, 10 – 11 am
                                                                         During school vacation weeks 
                                                                                  Fridays, 2 – 5 pm;  Sundays, 10 – 11 am.  
                    Queens Botanical Garden (Queens, NYC) (through October 31, from 4 to 6pm)
                    Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC)   |   Noon to 6pm)
     

Donation:
          Frick Collection (NYC)(11am to 1pm)