Multiple venues
Saturday, September 29
Admission: free for two people with printed ticket
www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday
The eighth annual free museum day, sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, takes place on Saturday, September 29, with institutions all over the country opening their doors to people who have downloaded a free ticket for two from the above website. There’s only one ticket allowed per household/e-mail address, so be careful before filling out the online form; some of the museums are free anyway, either all the time or on Saturdays, while others might be between exhibits so there won’t be all that much to see. The participating venues in the five boroughs include the American Folk Art Museum, the Asia Society Museum, the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, the Children’s Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Fraunces Tavern Museum, the Hispanic Society, Historic Richmond Town, the International Center of Photography, the Jewish Museum, the Morgan Library, the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, the Museum of American Finance, the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, the Museum of Arts & Design, the Museum of Chinese in America, the New York City Fire Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Noble Maritime Collection, the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, the Queens Historical Society, the Queens Museum of Art, the Skyscraper Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, the South Street Seaport Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Ukrainian Museum, and the Vilcek Foundation. Of course, if you pair up with friends and relatives, you can get more tickets for different places.