Manhattan Children’s Museum Free Days
The Manhattan Children’s Museum has Free Days on the First Friday of every month from 5:00-8:00pm.
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.
Manhattan Children’s Museum Free Days
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.
Manhattan Children’s Museum Free Days is on our list of New York Museum Free Days.