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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 21 Sep

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Starting at $20.52

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Sat 21 Sep

Starting at $20.52

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What's Included

All special exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

General Admission

Timescapes 28-minute documentary

Route and map

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
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff

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 (35)

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blairkk25

Jan 2022

I visited the Museum of the City of New York in December 2021. I walked the Museum Mile from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Museum of the City of New York passing many other museums on the way. I bought my ticket online the evening before. The first thing I saw was a great 30-minute film on the history of New York from 1609 to present. The film was narrated by Stanley Tucci. Then I went around the museum. The exhibits included: New York Music, Puppets, Stettmeyer Doll House, Activism in New York from 1609 to present (included Black Lives Matter and George Floyd), the History of NYC as a World City, the History of NYC as a Port City. I think it is a very good museum and I plan to go again in the future.

Itinerant_Foodies

Jan 2022

We visited the puppet museum, the miniatures exhibit, the rising sea levels exhibit, and we watched the 1/2 hour movie about the history of New York City. The size of the museum is perfect--the various exhibits were reasonably sized and were very well done which kept our interest through each of the different areas. The exhibits are historical as well as modern and timely which also helped to keep our interest and educate us at the same time. Highly recommended!

Thomas V

Oct 2021

I don't know how one is able to visit this museum as it is often closed for private events. I went once this week and it was closed for filming and a second time and it was closed for a private wedding. There was nothing on the web site about the closures and the information number on the telephone has a recording that stated that the museum was open. The guards at the gates did not want to hear my complaints.