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American Folk Art Museum 45 West 53rd Street (212) 265-1040 http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ Free on Fridays after 5:30pm Anne Frank Center, USA 38 Crosby Street, Fifth floor (212) 431-7993 http://www.annefrank.com/ Free admission Asia Society 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street (212) 288-6400 http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/ Free on Fridays, 6:00 - 9:00pm Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St (718) 681-6000 http://www.bronxmuseum.org/ Free on Wednesdays Brooklyn Children's Museum  145 Brooklyn Avenue (718) 735-4400 http://www.brooklynkids.org/ First Thursdays of every month are free Brooklyn Museum of Art 200 Eastern Parkway (718) 638-5000 www.brooklynmuseum.org First Saturdays of each month are free Children's Museum of the Arts 182 Lafayette Street (212) 941-9198 http://www.cmany.org “Pay as you wish” on Thursdays from 4-6pm Dahesh Museum of Art 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets) (212) 759-0606 http://www.daheshmuseum.org/ Free on the first Thursday of each month from 6-9 pm Doll & Toy Museum of NYC The Brooklyn Heights Public Library, 2nd Floor 280 Cadman Plaza West (718) 243-0820 http://www.dtmnyc.org/ Free admission The Jewish Museum  1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street (212) 423-3200 http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/ “Pay what you wish” on Thursdays, 5 - 8 pm Lefferts Historic House Museum Prospect Park (718) 789-2822 http://www.prospectpark.org/dest/main.cfm?target=leff Free admission Museum of Biblical Art 1865 Broadway at 61st Street (212) 408-1500 http://www.mobia.org/ Free admission Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry St., 2nd Floor (212) 619-4785 http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp Free on Fridays Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 West 53rd Street (212) 708-9400 http://www.moma.org/ Free during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4–8pm Ford Family Programs at MoMA - Ford Family Programs at MoMA introduce children and adults to the richly varied world of modern and contemporary art through guided walks, art workshops, artist talks, film screenings, special events, activity guides and Web sites. http://www.moma.org/events/family/index.html Museum of the Moving Image 35^th Ave at 36^th St. (718) 784-0077 http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php Admission to galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 - 8:00 pm National Museum of the American Indian  1 Bowling Green (212) 514-3700 http://www.americanindian.si.edu/ Free admission New York Hall of Science  47-01 111th Street (718) 699-0005 http://www.nyhallsci.org/ Admission is free on Friday 2 pm - 5 pm, Sunday 10 am - 11 am New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex Grand Central Terminal (just off the Main Concourse in the Shuttle Passage, next to the Station Master's office) (212) 878-0106 http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm Free admission Sony Wonder Technology Lab Sony Plaza, 550 Madison Ave. at 56^th St. (212) 833-8100 http://www.sonywondertechlab.com/ Free admission Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street (212) 864-4500 http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/ First Saturday of each month are free Whitney Museum of Art  945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street 1 (800) WHITNEY http://www.whitney.org/index.php “Pay what you wish” admission on Fridays from 6–9 pm