NYC’s Best Museums for Free

NYC’s Best Museums for Free

How to Use Your NYC Library Card
To Get Into 33 Museums and Attractions
For Free

NYC Library Card

More museums giving a 'Culture Pass.'

Here's the full list of museums outside of Staten Island where NYPL cardholders can go to for free.

1. Brooklyn Botanic Garden: 990 Washington Avenue.
2. Brooklyn Children's Museum: 145 Brooklyn Avenue.
3. Brooklyn Historical Society: 128 Pierrepont Street.
4. Brooklyn Museum: 200 Eastern Parkway.
5. Children's Museum of Manhattan: 212 W 83rd Street.
6. Children's Museum of the Arts: 103 Charlton Street.
7. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: 2 E 91st Street.
8. The Drawing Center: 35 Wooster Street.
9. The Frick Collection: 1 E 70th Street.
10. International Center of Photography:  250 Bowery.
11. Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum: Pier 86, West 46th Street & 12th Avenue.
12. The Jewish Museum: 1109 5th Avenue & E 92nd Street.
13. Louis Armstrong House: 34-56 107th Street.
14. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Avenue.
15. The Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Avenue.
16. Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1: 11 W 53rd Street.
17. Museum of Chinese in America: 215 Centre Street.
18. Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust: 36 Battery Place.
19. Museum of the City of New York: 1220 5th Avenue & 103rd Street.
20. New York Transit Museum: 99 Schermerhorn Street.
21. Noguchi Museum: 9-01 33rd Road
22. Queens Historical Society: 14335 37th Avenue.
23. Queens Museum: New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
24. Rubin Museum of Art: 150 W 17th Street.
25. SculptureCenter: 44-19 Purves Street.
26. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: 1 Bowling Green.
27. Society of Illustrators: 128 E. 63rd Street.
28. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 1071 5th Avenue.
29. Sugar Hill Children's Museum: 898 St Nicholas Avenue.
30. Wave Hill: 675 W 252nd Street.
31. Whitney Museum of American Art: 99 Gansevoort Street.

There’s literally never been a better time to get a New York City Library card.

Besides having free access to millions of books, New York Public Library cardholders can now use their cards to reserve a Culture Pass, which grants them free entry to dozens of cultural institutions around the city. The program is also available to cardholders for the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library.