NYC museums & places

Opening hours, adult admission, and a ranked shortlist for Monday Sep. 28 through Monday Oct. 5, 2026. Museum names, exhibitions, special hours, and tours link to source pages where available.

Opening hours

Closed / unavailable Late hours, free admission, or special opening
Place (adult admission) Mon 9/28 Tue 9/29 Wed 9/30 Thu 10/1 Fri 10/2 Sat 10/3 Sun 10/4 Mon 10/5
Nicholas Roerich Museum (Free) Closed 12–4 12–4 12–4 12–4 12–5 12–5 Closed
The New York Historical ($24 adult) Closed 11–5 11–5 11–5 11–8 11–5 11–5 Closed
American Museum of Natural History ($37 adult; NY residents PWYW) 10–5:30 10–5:30 10–5:30 10–5:30 10–5:30 10–5:30 10–5:30 10–5:30
Brooklyn Museum (Suggested $20; Iris van Herpen $30) Closed Closed 11–6 11–6 11–8 11–8 11–6 Closed
Museum at FIT (Free) Closed Closed 12–8 12–8 12–8 10–5 10–5 Closed
Studio Museum in Harlem (Suggested $16; Sun free) Closed Closed 11–6 11–6 11–9 11–6 11–6 Closed
Guggenheim ($16 adult) 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30 10:30–5:30
Morgan Library & Museum ($25 adult; Fri 5–8 free) Closed 10:30–5 10:30–5 10:30–5 10:30–8 10:30–5 10:30–5 Closed
Noguchi Museum ($16 adult; Oct 2 free) Closed Closed 11–6 11–6 11–6, free 11–6 11–6 Closed
Center for Architecture (Free galleries) Galleries closed / installation Galleries closed / installation Galleries closed / installation 6–8 opening 9–8 11–5 Closed 9–8
Cooper Hewitt ($10 adult (reduced)) 10–6 10–6 10–6 10–6 10–6 10–6 10–6 10–6
Grolier Club (Free) 10–5 10–5 10–5 10–5 10–5 10–5 Closed 10–5
Mmuseumm (No listed admission fee) Closed Closed Closed Closed Closed 11–6 11–6 Closed
Whitney Museum of American Art ($30 adult; Fri 5–10 free) 10:30–6 Closed 10:30–6 10:30–6 10:30–10 10:30–6 10:30–6 10:30–6
International Center of Photography (ICP) ($18 adult) 10:30–6:30 10:30–6:30 10:30–6:30 10:30–8 10:30–6:30 10:30–6:30 10:30–6:30 10:30–6:30
New York Transit Museum ($10 adult) Closed Closed 10–4 10–4 10–4 10–4 10–4 Closed
Central Park 6am–1am 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1
Green-Wood Cemetery 7–7 7–7 7–7 8–5 8–5 8–5 8–5 8–5
Prospect Park 6am–1am 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1
Brooklyn Bridge Park 6am–1am 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1 6–1
High Line 7–10 7–10 7–10 7–10 7–10 7–10 7–10 7–10
Roosevelt Island / Four Freedoms Park 9–7 Closed 9–7 9–5 9–5 9–5 9–5 9–5
Useful timing: ICP’s two large summer exhibitions end today, Sep. 28. Thursday Oct. 1 is the Center for Architecture opening. Friday Oct. 2 has several strong free/late-hour options, including Noguchi, the Morgan, and the Whitney. Saturday Oct. 3 is the strongest Brooklyn Museum day and also has the Transit Museum’s vintage-train ride to Green-Wood.

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1

Brooklyn Museum

Suggested $20; Iris van Herpen $30
Best on Sat Oct. 3. Manga source ↗

Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses pairs 140+ couture works with art, science, natural-history objects, technology, biology, and movement. Cézanne to Modigliani and the Hopi kachina show open Oct. 2; Art of Manga opens Oct. 3. Keisha Scarville’s plaza installation is also on view in this period. That makes Oct. 3–4 the strongest window.

Open this week: Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
2

Noguchi Museum

$16 adult; Oct 2 free
Fri Oct. 2 is Free First Friday. Source ↗

A quiet art/design/fabrication wildcard: Noguchi’s stone, metal, wood, furniture, lighting, models, and sculpture are integrated with the industrial building and garden. The attraction this week is primarily the permanent collection and setting rather than a major temporary exhibition.

Open this week: Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
5

International Center of Photography (ICP)

$18 adult
Go today, Mon Sep. 28, if interested: both Yves Saint Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA 2000–25 close tonight. Exhibition source ↗

Yves Saint Laurent and Photography looks at photography as part of the designer’s creative life and public image, while Photobooks USA 2000–25 surveys twenty-five years of American photographic publishing. After Sep. 28 the lineup becomes much thinner until the next major shows open Oct. 15; Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit remains through Oct. 11.

Open this week: Mon 9/28, Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4, Mon 10/5
6

Museum at FIT

Free
Figured Cloth opens Thu Oct. 1. Source ↗

Doll Dressing explores the two-way relationship between dolls and fashion, from dolls spreading new styles to modern baby-doll and paper-doll aesthetics. From Oct. 1, Figured Cloth: From Sketch to Jacquard adds student-designed jacquard textiles moving from hand-drawn motifs through weaving software into finished fabric.

Open this week: Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
7

New York Transit Museum

$10 adult
Open Wed–Sun 10–4. On Sat Oct. 3, 2–7pm there is a separate-ticket vintage train ride to Green-Wood Cemetery ($60 adult). Program source ↗

50 Years of Stories mines the archive for unusual experiments, proposals, and personalities from NYC transit history; FAREwell, MetroCard covers the card’s technology, rollout, graphic identity, and cultural life; Ticket to Ride traces fare collection; and the platform level contains twenty vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1907. The museum currently notes an A/C outage in the back mezzanine galleries and Education Center.

Open this week: Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
8

Cooper Hewitt

$10 adult (reduced)
The third floor is temporarily closed and the garden is closed Sep. 28–Oct. 5; admission is reduced. Visit source ↗

Design Across Time spans product, graphic, digital, textile, fashion, furniture, wallcoverings, and architecture, organized around things designers do—play, tweak, repeat, transform, show off, and simplify. Pay-what-you-wish is 5–6pm daily.

Open this week: Mon 9/28, Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4, Mon 10/5
9

Morgan Library & Museum

$25 adult; Fri 5–8 free
Go by Sun Oct. 4 if you want Tarot!; that is its final day. Tarot source ↗

Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions traces tarot from a fifteenth-century Italian courtly card game into occult imagery and modern artistic vocabulary. Hujar: Contact uses 110+ contact sheets to reveal Peter Hujar’s shooting and editing process, while Friends Who Came to See Me focuses on drawings from John Ashbery’s collection. There is also a ticketed Morgan After Hours on Thu Oct. 1, 6–9pm. The medieval blockbook exhibition Graphic Devotions does not open until November.

Open this week: Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
10

Whitney Museum of American Art

$30 adult; Fri 5–10 free
Fri Oct. 2, 5–10pm is free (advance ticket recommended). The Biennial is in its final partial-view weeks. Free Friday source ↗ · Tour calendar ↗

Whitney Biennial 2026 is now only on Floor 6 and runs there through Oct. 12, with work by 56 artists, duos, and collectives responding to contemporary American life and its global entanglements. Andy Warhol Family Album presents hundreds of Polaroids from Warhol’s personal archive. Also on view are The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, “Untitled” (America), and newer collection presentations. Free docent tours run most days.

Open this week: Mon 9/28, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4, Mon 10/5
12

Guggenheim

$16 adult
Open every day in this window. A daily 2pm, 30-minute architecture talk is included with admission. Tour source ↗

Taryn Simon: Father Country I Do Love You fills the rotunda with photography, text, video, and sculpture about hidden systems, state power, memory, and personal history. The Guggenheim describes it as a singular interactive installation filling the entire Rotunda.

Open this week: Mon 9/28, Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4, Mon 10/5
13

The New York Historical

$24 adult
Oct. 2–4 is the best overlap. You Should Be Dancing opens Oct. 2; Betye Saar’s Black Dolls ends Oct. 4. Opening source ↗ · Closing source ↗

Betye Saar’s Black Dolls examines Black representation, childhood, racist imagery, collecting, and Saar’s transformation of historical objects. From Oct. 2, You Should Be Dancing: New York, 1976 and Beyond revisits the city through punk, disco, hip-hop, fashion, instruments, photographs, and ephemera.

Open this week: Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
14

American Museum of Natural History

$37 adult; NY residents PWYW
Open daily 10am–5:30pm; less date-sensitive than most of the list. Hours source ↗

For the Win: Objects of Sports Excellence features 70 objects from more than 15 sports. Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs presents a before-and-after look at the asteroid impact that transformed life on Earth; it requires an additional ticket.

Open this week: Mon 9/28, Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4, Mon 10/5
15

Nicholas Roerich Museum

Free
Open Tue–Fri noon–4 and Sat–Sun noon–5; admission is free. The Fri Oct. 2, 6pm flute concert is sold out. Hours & event source ↗

A small townhouse museum with more than 150 works by Roerich. Himālaya — Abode of Snows combines Himalayan paintings with music and a subtle aromatic blend composed partly from Himalayan cedar, pine, and juniper.

Open this week: Tue 9/29, Wed 9/30, Thu 10/1, Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4
16

Mmuseumm

No listed admission fee
Only open Sat–Sun, 11am–6pm in this window. Hours source ↗

Modern Rubble Around the World treats fragments of rubble as vernacular objects carrying traces of war, construction, destruction, and ordinary human decisions. Best as a short Lower Manhattan add-on rather than a main destination.

Open this week: Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4

Outdoor / non-museum options

Green-Wood Cemetery

A strong non-museum choice: 19th-century landscape design, architecture, monuments, and New York history. The main gate changes from 7–7 to 8–5 on Oct. 1.

High Line

Current art includes Derek Fordjour’s painted-bronze figures on race, labor, and spectacle, Patricia Ayres’s bandaged anthropomorphic sculptures, and Alison Nguyen’s film work.

Roosevelt Island / Four Freedoms Park

Louis Kahn’s austere granite memorial uses the island’s southern tip and Manhattan skyline as part of the architecture.

Central Park

The landscape design itself is the attraction: Bethesda Terrace, the Ramble, Reservoir, North Woods, bridges, and architecture.

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Waterfront landscape, reused industrial piers, and Manhattan/bridge views.

Prospect Park

Olmsted/Vaux landscape and an easy pairing with the Brooklyn Museum.