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Museum of the City of New York General Admission Ticket

Museum of the City of New York General Admission Ticket

Overview

The Museum of the City of New York fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world’s most influential metropolis. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city’s past, present, and future. Housed in a newly renovated 1932 Georgian Colonial-Revival building, the Museum is located at the top of Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, across the street from Central Park’s Conservatory Gardens, and at the southern end of the neighborhood of East Harlem.

City: New York

Sat 12 Apr

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Sat 12 Apr

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What's Included

All special exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

General Admission

Timescapes 28-minute documentary

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Meeting point

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1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, at 103rd Street

Please enter through 5th Avenue entrance and exchange your vouchers at the gift shop.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What To Expect

Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York features two ongoing exhibitions--the award-winning New York at Its Core, a three gallery exhibition that explores New York City’s history and future through objects, images, contemporary video, photography, and interactive digital experiences, and Activist New York, an exhibition which seeks to tell the story of activism in the five boroughs past and present. There are also several special exhibitions on view at any one time and the short documentary Timescapes, a multimedia historical storytelling, bringing viewers on a 28 minute journey through 400 years of history. The film runs every 40 minutes and headsets are available in French, Mandarin, and Spanish.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (73)

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uringoodcompany

Mar 2025

Terrific museum, documenting the history of the city. Really well done. Multi media. Don’t miss the café featuring Amy’s bread. Took us about two hours.

FaeNat

Feb 2025

What a wonderful museum. The Stettheimer dolls house exhibition was really interesting and it was lovely to see the house and all the detail that went into creating it. The exhibit on Shirley Chisholm was fantastic - what a roll model and trailblazer that lady was. I loved reading about the history of New York and its native people, the Lanape, as well as how the city has changed and developed since the 18th century. The exhibit on New York and various media projects was very interesting and it was great to see several screens showing a display of various films and shows that have been created in this magical city. The museum is in a beautiful neo-Georgian building, had a very interesting and reasonably priced cafe and the wasn’t too big as to be exhausting or overwhelming. I’d highly recommend! We did go on a Wednesday, which at the time of writing, the museum is free - worth bearing in mind! Book your tickets as close to the date as possible to benefit from this.

R4960NKjustinw

Feb 2025

I went on a Members tour of the "Art Deco New York" exhibition at the museum before it closed. What was nice was it was a private tour and there were only ten of us with the curator of the exhibition. So we got a real behind scene of the exhibition. Some of the items on the collection was Ron Lauder's private collection of post cards, there was Art Deco architectural items such as the wooden models of Rockefeller Center and a complete collection of outfits from the early 1930's. It was an interesting look at Depression era architecture and how it influenced everything. What was nice was the curator was there to explain everything to us and give us her perspective of the exhibition. This is one of the nice things about being a member are these interesting tours and lectures. It really gives an in-depth look at exhibitions.