- The Metropolitan Museum
- Washington Crossing the Delaware
- The Temple of Dendur
- Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait with a Straw Hat
- Monet’s Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
- American Museum of Natural History
- Hayden Planetarium (one of the best planetariums in the world)
- The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life (for blue whale)
- The Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs (for the iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton)
- The Butterfly Conservatory (requires additional fee, but worthwhile)
- Museum of Modern Art
- The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
- Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans
- Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
- Monet’s Water Lilies
- The Persistence of Memory by Dali
- Picasso’s work
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Composition 8 by Kandinsky
- Picasso’s work
- Mountains of Saint Remy by Vincent van Gogh
- The Hermitage at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Georgia O’Keeffe’s work
- Edward Hopper’s A Woman in the Sun
- Robert Bechtle’s ’61 Pontiac
- Alexander Calder’s Circus
- Brooklyn Museum
- SPYSCAPE
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
- The Jewish Museum
- Fotografiska
- Merchant's House Museum
- New Museum of Contemporary Art
- The Frick Collection
- Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait
- The Comtess d’Haussonville
- The three works of Johannes Vermeer Officer and Laughing Girl
- Mistress and Maid
- Girl Interrupted at Her Music
- Ellis Island Immigration Museum
- The Met Cloisters
- National Museum of the American Indian
- New York Transit Museum
- The Tenement Museum
- The New Museum
- Neue Galerie
- 9/11 Memorial & Museum
- Museum of Sex
- Morgan Library & Museum
- Museum of Chinese in America
- https://www.timeout.com/newyork/museums/free-museum-days-in-nyc
- https://freetoursbyfoot.com/free-museums-new-york-city/
- https://culturepass.nyc/
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Cooper Hewitt
- Intrepid Museum
- The Met Cloisters
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- MoMA PS1
- The Morgan Library & Museum
- The Museum of Modern Art
- New York Transit Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art