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Museum membership guide
Top 50 locations in New York
byShiry
Live update: Updated February 15, 2022Copy link
Copy link1. Kopernik Observatory & Science Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
ShiryTwo adults and their children living in the same household
2. Brooklyn Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe museum website: www.brooklynhistory.org
3. Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe museum website: www.buffalohistory.org
4. Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe museum website: www.bnhv.org
5. Hanford Mills Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
6. New York Transit Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryASTC- Free family admission (two adults and two children under 17). Museum Gallery Annex & Store at Grand Central Terminal (Shuttle Passage, next to the Station Master’s Office) is free.
7. Ontario County Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe museum website: www.ochs.org
8. The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe museum website: www.wyckoffmuseum.org
9. A.J. Read Science Discovery Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryNo restrictions. Museum is free; Passport visitors receive free admission to special events.
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
10. Buffalo Museum of Science
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryParents or grandparents with their children or grandchildren under 18. Includes Tifft Nature Preserve, 1200 Fuhrmann Boulevard, Buffalo, NY 14203
11. Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo adults and four children under 18
12. Long Island Children’s Museum ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
13. Long Island Science Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryOpen
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
14. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryNamed “2017 Best Museum” by Hudson Valley Magazine, recipient of the 2015 Dutchess Tourism Family Entertainment Award of Distinction and the 2015 United Way Non-Profit Spotlight Award, the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum is the ideal destination for families with young children
15. Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (AKA: The Discovery Center)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo adults, all children under 18 in the same household
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
16. miSci (Museum of Innovation and Science)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo adults and all dependent children under 18
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
17. National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo adults and up to four children under 18 residing in the same household; must be part of the same family
18. New York Hall of Science ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
19. Roberson Museum and Science Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo parents and their children living in the same household (maximum four)
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
20. Rochester Museum & Science Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryUp to two adults and their immediate financial dependents, i.e., children, adult parents, living in the same household. Regular admission fees apply to planetarium and nature center.
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
21. Sciencenter
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShirySciencenter is a hands-on science museum in Ithaca, New York. It was founded on February 28, 1983 as a 501 not-for-profit educational organization. The Sciencenter grew out of the volunteer-run hands-on science program run for 15 years at several elementary schools in the Ithaca City School District.
22. Sci-Tech Center of Northern New York
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo adults and their minor children, all living together.
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
23. Staten Island Children’s Museum ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
24. SUNY Poly Children’s Museum of Science and Technology (SUNY Poly CMOST)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryTwo adults and all dependent children under 18
ALSO FEATURED IN:Top 18 ASTC locations in New York
25. Vernon Public Art Gallery
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryVernon Public Art Gallery (VPAG) presents exhibitions featuring emerging, mid-career and established artists working in a variety of media, including paintings, sculpture, video and installation art. VPAG is the largest public gallery in the North Okanagan and offers approximately 20 exhibitions per year for public viewing.
26. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLocation: 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, United States. For more details: http://www.albrightknox.org , 716-882-8700
27. Arnot Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLocation: 235 Lake Street, Elmira, NY 14901, United States. For more details: http://www.arnotartmuseum.org , 607-734-3697
28. Bard Graduate Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryBard Graduate Center is devoted to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through research, advanced degrees, exhibitions, publications, and events. At Bard Graduate Center, we study the human past through its material traces. We study objects—from those created for obvious aesthetic value to the ordinary things that are part of everyday life. Learning is what Bard Graduate Center is all about. Our accomplished faculty inspire students to strive for excellence, knowing that this will prepare them for the intellectual and professional rigors of careers in academia, in museums, and in the private sector. This high standard is equally the hallmark of the Gallery’s acclaimed exhibitions and related public programs.
29. Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLocation: 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, United States. For more details: http://www.burchfield-penney.org , 716-878-6011
30. Columbia County Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryFounded in 1916, the Columbia County Historical Society Museum & Library collects, preserves, interprets and presents the history, heritage, and culture of Columbia County, New York, and serves residents of all eighteen towns and the city of Hudson. For more than 100 years, thousands of people from all across the county and beyond have enjoyed our varied exhibitions, historic properties, and educational programs. A vital community resource, our collections include important and unique archives, maps, paintings, textiles, furniture and decorative arts relating to Columbia County’s heritage. The Columbia County Historical Society includes two museum galleries of changing exhibitions, a research library and reading room, manuscript storage, collection storage and administrative offices.Founded in 1916, the Columbia County Historical Society Museum & Library collects, preserves, interprets and presents the history, heritage, and culture of Columbia County, New York, and serves residents of all eighteen towns and the city of Hudson. For more than 100 years, thousands of people from all across the county and beyond have enjoyed our varied exhibitions, historic properties, and educational programs. A vital community resource, our collections include important and unique archives, maps, paintings, textiles, furniture and decorative arts relating to Columbia County’s heritage. The Columbia County Historical Society includes two museum galleries of changing exhibitions, a research library and reading room, manuscript storage, collection storage and administrative offices
31. Cortland County Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryCortland County Historical Society (CCHS) is home to the James Suggett House Museum and the Kellogg Memorial Research Center. The Museum showcases the stories of more than two centuries of Cortland County life. Built in 1882, this large, historic home anchored the Suggett family property, which also included the area now known as Suggett Park. Some eighty years later, James’s great-grandson – Chester Birdlebough – bequeathed the home to CCHS, finally giving the museum a space of its own after residing first in the Franklin Hatch Library on Church Street and then in the County Court House.
32. El Museo del Barrio
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
33. Fenimore Art Museum & The Farmers’ Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryFenimore Art Museum is dedicated to welcoming and connecting people to our shared cultural heritage through exhibitions and programs that engage, delight and inspire.
34. Frederic Remington Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryFrederic Remington (b. 1861 in Canton, NY d. 1909 Ridgefield, CT) was one of the most famous artists of his time. He brought images of the Old West to the public on the pages of magazines and later in bronze. The Museum’s collection also includes Remington’s look at Northern New York and his beloved norther wilderness with oils and sketches. Remington enjoyed his time in the North Country. So, in May of 1900, Frederic and Eva Remington purchased a summer home at Ingleneuk. Ingleneuk is an island in the St. Lawrence River in New York. Across from Ingleneuk is Singer Castle, which Remington painted in 1907. Remington produced over 3,000 signed paintings and drawings and 22 different subjects in bronze. It was in 1895 that Remington produced his first bronze, The Broncho Buster.
35. Guild Hall of East Hampton
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryGuild Hall, one of the first multidisciplinary centers in the country to combine a museum, theater, and education space under one roof, was established in 1931 as a gathering place for community where an appreciation for the arts would serve to encourage greater civic participation. For nearly nine decades, Guild Hall has embraced this open-minded vision and provided a welcoming environment for the public to engage with art exhibitions, performances, and educational offerings. Art and artists have long been the engine of Guild Hall’s activities and the institution continues to find innovative ways to support creativity in everyone.
36. Hofstra University Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
37. Katonah Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
38. Memorial Art Gallery
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
39. Museum of American Illustration
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
40. Nassau County Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryVisit us to enjoy a day filled with beauty, from the top-tier art in the galleries and sculptures on the grounds to the natural beauty of the gardens and walking trails on our 145-acre nature preserve.
41. Oneida Community Mansion House
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
42. Planting Fields Foundation
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLocated in Oyster Bay, New York and originally landscaped by the Olmstead Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, the Arboretum grounds feature 409 acres of greenhouses, rolling lawns, formal gardens, woodland paths and outstanding plant collections. The original historic estate buildings remain intact including Coe Hall, a 65-room Tudor Revival mansion designed by Walker & Gillette. The interior of the house is a showcase of artistry and craftsmanship and features a distinctly American aesthetic through original ironwork commissions by Samuel Yellin and murals painted by artists Robert W. Chanler and Everett Shinn.
43. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art of SUNY at New Paltz
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
44. Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Seneca-Iroquois National Museum respectfully honors the ancestors and shapes the heritage of the Seneca Nation of Indians through exhibitions, programs, collections and education.
45. Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
46. The Drawing Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan’s SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs. It was founded in 1977 by curator Martha Beck (1938–2014).
47. The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Mission of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County is to teach the history of the Holocaust and its lessons through education and community outreach. We teach about the dangers of antisemitism, racism, bullying and all other manifestations of intolerance. We promote resistance to prejudice and advocate respect for every human being.
48. The Noguchi Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryFounded in 1985 by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), one of the leading sculptors and designers of the twentieth century, The Noguchi Museum was the first museum in America to be founded, designed, and installed by a living artist to show his or her own work. Widely viewed as among the artist’s greatest achievements, the Museum comprises ten indoor galleries in a converted factory building, as well as an internationally acclaimed outdoor sculpture garden. Since its founding, it has served as an international hub for Noguchi research and appreciation. In addition to housing the artist’s archives and the catalogue raisonnée of his work, the Museum exhibits a comprehensive selection of sculpture, models for public projects and gardens, dance sets, and his Akari lanterns. Provocative, frequently-changing installations drawn from the permanent collection, together with diverse special exhibitions related to Noguchi and the context in which he worked, offer a rich, contextualized view of Noguchi’s art and illuminate his enduring influence as a category-defying, multicultural, cross-disciplinary innovator.
49. The Rockwell Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
50. The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
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