The New York Botanical Garden is located at Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road, in the Bronx. The New York Botanical Garden is generally open Tues-Sun, 10:00am to 5 or 6:00pm.

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The New York Botanical Garden is located at East 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard and contains 50 different gardens and plant collections. Sightseers can easily spend a day admiring the serene cascade waterfall, wetlands and a 50-acre (20 ha) tract of never-harvested oaks, American beeches, cherry, birch, tulip and white ash trees at The New York Botanical Garden.

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The American Folk Art Museum is located at 45 West 53rd Street in New York and is open Tues-Sun: 10:30am - 5:30pm; Fri: 10:30am - 7:30pm; The American Folk Art Musum is closed on Mondays.

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The American Folk Art Museum is the leading center for the study and enjoyment of American folk art, as well as the work of international self-taught artists. The museum was founded on June 23, 1961, and opened its doors to the public for the first time on September 27, 1963, in the rented parlor floor of a townhouse at 49 West 53rd Street. In 1979, the museum purchased two townhouses adjacent to 49 West 53rd Street. While plans for a development of these properties were being devised, the institution continued to present its exhibitions in the rented gallery until 1984, when it opened facilities in a former carriage house at 125 West 55th Street.

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MOMA is located at 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. MOMA is open Sat-Mon: 10:30am to 5:30pm; Wed-Thr: 10:30am to 5:30pm; Fri: 10:30am to 8:00pm; Closed Tuesdays, Thanksgiving & Christmas;

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum’s collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, film, and electronic media.

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New York Museum Free Days - Updated Jan 15, 2010

American Folk Art Museum Free Days
Open: Tues-Sun: 10:30am - 5:30pm; Fri: 10:30am - 7:30pm;

Free Days: Fridays after 5:30pm

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Free Days
Open Tues–Fri: 8:00am - 4:30pm; Sat-Sun: 10:00am - 4:30pm

Free Days: All Tuesdays; Seniors, Fridays year-round; Weekdays (Nov 17 to March 2); Saturdays 10am-noon are free unless there is a special event;

Metropolitan Museum of Art Free Days
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is open Tues–Thur: 9:30am – 5:30pm; Fri-Sat: 9:30am – 9:00pm; Sun: 9:30am - 5:30pm;

Free Days: The Met participates in several programs that include free days for students. All New York City public school students, along with students from Bard Graduate Center, Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, may visit the Museum for free. Please check with your school administrator to see if your student I.D. allows free admission to the Museum.

Manhattan Children’s Museum Free Days
The Manhattan Children’s Museum is open Tues-Sun: 10am to 5pm; Closed Monday for School and Outreach Programs; Open till 8pm on the First Friday of each month.

The Manhattan Children’s Museum is free on the First Friday of every month, from 5pm to 8pm.

Free Days 2010: February 5, March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, August 6, September 3, October 1, November 5, December 3

MOMA Free Days
The Museum of Modern Art is open Sat-Mon: 10:30am - 5:30pm; Wed-Thr: 10:30am - 5:30pm; Fri: 10:30am - 8:00pm; Closed Tues, Thanksgiving & Christmas;

The Museum of Modern Art is free every Friday night 4:00-8:00pm.

Free Days: Every Friday Night of 2010.

New York Botanical Garden Free Days
The Gardens are generally open Tues-Sun, 10:00am - 6:00pm. Please check the official website for specific dates.

Free Days : Wednesdays (All Day); Saturdays (10 a.m. to noon);

Free Days only basic grounds admission. Does NOT include admission to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, Rock and Native Plant Gardens (April–October), or Tram Tour.

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Free Days
Children under 12: Free
School groups: Free
Seniors, Fridays year-round: Free
Tuesdays: Free
Saturdays 10–12 noon: Free
Weekdays (November 17 – March 2) Free

*Except on Saturdays with Public Programs, such as Chile Pepper Fiesta.

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is located at 1000 Washington Avenue. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is open Tuesday–Friday: 8:00am to 4:30pm; Weekends and holidays: 10:00am to 4:30pm; Closed Monday (but open holiday Mondays);

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a world-renowned botanic garden in Brooklyn, New York, USA, located near the neighborhoods Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, and Park Slope. About 25 minutes from midtown Manhattan by subway, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is a 52-acre garden including a number of specialty “gardens within the Garden,” plant collections, and the Steinhardt Conservatory, which houses the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum, three climate-themed plant pavilions, a white cast-iron and glass aquatic house, and an art gallery. Founded in 1910, the Garden holds over 10,000 taxa of plants and each year welcomes over 700,000 visitors from around the world.

Free guided tours of Brookly Botancial Garden are offered at 1 p.m. on weekends; no reservations are needed. Special group tours, led by Garden Guides, are available for a fee, Tuesday–Sunday by appointment. Brooklyn Museum–Brooklyn Botanic Garden lunch tours are offered Wednesday–Sunday. Call 718-623-7220 for details about more guided tours or to schedule a tour.

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The Manhattan Children’s Museum is located in the Tisch Building at 212 W. 83rd Street. The Manhattan Children’s Museum is open Tues-Sun: 10am to 5pm; Closed Monday for School and Outreach Programs; Open till 8pm on the First Friday of each month.

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The Children’s Museum of Manhattan was founded by Bette Korman, under the name GAME (Growth Through Art and Museum Education), in 1973. With New York City in a deep fiscal crisis, and school art, music, and cultural programs eliminated, a loosely organized, group of artists and educators set up a basement storefront to serve Harlem and the Upper West Side. With a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a city-owned courthouse was renovated into a small exhibition, studio, and workshop and renamed the Manhattan Laboratory Museum. The museum became the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in the 1980s and moved to its current location in 1989. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan has grown to 325,000 visitors each year, which includes 30,000 children who visit as part of a school group and more than 34,000 children served through offsite outreach programs.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is open Tues–Thur: 9:30am to 5:30pm; Fri-Sat: 9:30am to 9:00pm; Sun: 9:30am to 5:30pm; Closed Mondays except for holidays.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, USA. It has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, often referred to simply as “the Met,” is one of the world’s largest art galleries, and has a much smaller second location in Upper Manhattan, at “The Cloisters,” which features medieval art.

Represented in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection are works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art. The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world. A number of notable interiors, ranging from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s galleries.

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