Free Museum Admisison Every Tuesday

Enjoy NYC on the cheap by taking advantage of FREE or pay-as-you-wish admission at museums, zoos, gardens and cultural institutions. We are lucky there are dozens of deals on different days and hours during the week and on weekends

Here’s the list for Tuesday.

Be sure to make your ticket reservation in advance, where required, since museums are still requiring social distancing – along with mask wearing.

As always, you can visit our Free and Cheap Events Calendar for more budget-friendly events and activities in the greatest city on the planet.

Free Museum Admission Every Monday

Best Museums for Kids

If you do not already have an IDNYC Card, get one. It’s FREE, and offers FREE admission at more than 30 NYC museums, zoos, gardens and cultural institutions, along with shopping and theater discounts.

You can also use it as a library card at all three NYC systems, NYPL (which serves Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island), Brooklyn Library and Queens Library.

Sorry visitors – this is for NYC residents only.

Tuesday – NYC Free Museum Admission

There are no “only on Tuesday” freebies. But these NYC museums have a pay-as-you-wish policy every day, which means you can choose not to pay at all.

But that’s not NYC on the cheap - that’s just plain cheap.

American Museum of Natural History

Pay-what-you-wish admission is available to residents of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, but timed-entry reservations must be booked in advance.

Time slots are available 10am to 4pm through Sept. 30, 22021

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pay-what-you-wish for New York state residents as well as New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut students.

The Cloisters

Now a branch of The Met, the same pay-what-you-wish admission rule applies.

Brooklyn Museum

Timed-entry reservations must be booked in advance.

MoMA PS1

Timed-entry tickets are required; NYC residents can enter for free or pay-what-they-wish.

El Museo del Barrio

Timed-entry tickets are recommended.

Staten Island Museum

Timed-entry reservations are recommended.

Find more FREE and cheap things to do

every day of the week on our

NYC Daily Events Calendar

NYCOTC Publisher/Executive Editor Evelyn Kanter is a native New Yorker who has written for the NY Times, NY Daily News, NY Post, New York Magazine, and is a former on-air reporter for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WABC-TV Eyewitness News.