📅 November 2026
📌 Special Events & 🖼️ Exhibition Openings ⤵️
Mondays-Sundays + Daily Days ⤵️
*=Pre-registration required/recommended
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📌 November Special Events
*Click links for RSVP/Tickets (mix of free + paid events)
The Bronx Museum
First Friday: Art In Action-Winter Supply Drive With Bronx Mutual Aid
🗓️ November 6, 6-9pm
National Museum of Mathematics
Family Fridays at MoMath: “The Chiral Cube: A mind-bending origami puzzle”
🗓️ November 6, 6:30-8pm
The Bronx Museum
Family Time Día de Muertos
🗓️ November 7, 1-3pm
MoMA PS1
Open House
🗓️November 7, 10am-6pm
Asia Society
Diwali Lights Up Asia Society
🗓️ November 7, 1-4pm
The Morgan Library & Museum
Family First Saturdays: Storytime at the Morgan: Thankfulness
🗓️ November 7, 11am-12pm
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Celebrate Día de los Muertos
🗓️ November 7, 10am-5pm
Queens Museum
Day of the Dead Celebration: Crossing Dreams
🗓️ November 7, 12-4:30pm
The Jewish Museum
Fashion and Art in Dialogue: Batsheva Wedding and Occasion Looks
🗓️ November 8, 3:40-4pm
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Celebrate Diwali
🗓️ November 12, 2-5pm
Studio Museum in Harlem
Artist-in-Residence 2026 Roundtable
🗓️ November 12, 7-8:30pm
Museum of the Moving Image
Marvels of Media Festival Kickoff Mixer
🗓️ November 13, 5-8pm
New York Historical Society
Designing Women Market
🗓️ November 14, 11am-5pm
The Noguchi Museum
Mindfulness in the Galleries: Ikebana
🗓️ November 14, 10am-12pm
American Folk Art Museum
Family Embroidery Workshop
🗓️ November 14, 10:30-11:30am
Cooper Hewitt
Family Program: Botanical Prints
🗓️ November 14, 11am-3pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Symposium—Costume Art
🗓️ Saturday, November 14, 11am-5pm
American Museum of Natural History
OrigamiUSA: November Special Folding Fun Session
🗓️ November 15, 10:30am-4:30pm
The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA After Hours: Taking Back Our Space
🗓️ November 17, 7-10pm
Asia Society
70 After Dark: Festival of Light
🗓️ November 19, 7-11pm
Guggenheim Museum
Late Shift
🗓️ November 19, 6:30-9pm
MoMA PS1
School Nite
🗓️ November 19, 7-11pm
Studio Museum in Harlem
Studio Holiday Market Day 1 Day 2
🗓️ November 20, 4-8:30pm + 21, 12-5:30pm
Museum of the Moving Image
Merch Meet
🗓️ November 22, 11am-6pm
National Museum of the American Indian
Native American Heritage Day
🗓️ November 27, 11am-4pm
* There are even more events happening at museums around NYC this month; check out a museum’s events page if you want more.
🖼️ November Exhibition Openings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tapa: Art of the Gift in Polynesia
🗓️ Opens November 2
The Noguchi Museum
No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75
🗓️ Opens November 4
MoMA PS1
New York Fashion at PS1, 1980–1984
🗓️ Opens November 5
MoMA PS1
Modern Spotlight: Fred Wilson
🗓️ Opens November 5
MoMA PS1
Hard Art
🗓️ Opens November 5
MoMA PS1
Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars
🗓️ Opens November 5
Museum of the City of New York
Gingerbread NYC
🗓️ Opens November 6
The Morgan Library & Museum
Graphic Devotions: Late Medieval European Blockbooks
🗓️ Opens November 6
Neue Galerie New York
25th Anniversary Exhibition
🗓️ Opens November 12
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Long Shadow: Postwar Japan Through the Lens
🗓️ Opens November 12
Poster House
Sculpting Sound: Günther Kieser’s Music Posters
🗓️ Opens November 12
Poster House
Just Say Nyet: The Soviet Battle Against Booze
🗓️ Opens November 12
The Frick Collection
Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl
🗓️ Opens November 12
New York Historical Society
Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection
🗓️ Opens November 13
The Museum of Modern Art
Na Mira: NO SMOKING
🗓️ Opens November 14
American Museum of Natural History
The Nature of Color
🗓️ Opens November 16
Museum of the City of New York
The Photography Triennial: After Dark
🗓️ Opens November 20
Hispanic Society Museum & Library
Mantilla: Fashion Unveiled
🗓️ Opens November 20
American Museum of Natural History
Monumental: The 3 WatchMen and Other Works by James Hart
🗓️ Opens November 20
New York Historical Society
Marilyn Monroe Centennial: Photographs by Lawrence Schiller
🗓️ Opens November 20
Whitney Museum of Modern Art
artport: A History of Internet Art
🗓️ Opens November 21
National Museum of the American Indian
Mighty Miniatures
🗓️ Opens November 21
American Museum of Natural History
The Origami Holiday Tree
🗓️ Opens November 23
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
🗓️ Opens November 24
* There are even more exhibitions opening at museums around NYC this month; check out a museum’s exhibitions page if you want more.
🎨 Free & Pay What You Wish Museum Days
📅 MONDAYS
Museum at Eldridge Street *
Pay-What-You-Wish Mondays & Fridays
📅 November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & November 6, 13, 20, 27
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
9/11 Memorial & Museum*
Free Admission Mondays + First Free First Sundays (NY, CT, NJ Residents, Employees & Students); 4-7pm
📅 November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; 5:30-7pm & November 7 (Closed Select Tues)
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 TUESDAYS
Guggenheim Museum
Pay-What-You-Wish Tuesdays & Sundays
📅 November 3, 10, 17, 24 & November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; 4-5:30pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 WEDNESDAYS
Museum of the City of New York
Pay-What-You-Wish (NYS residents) & Free Late Night Wednesdays
📅 November 1-30 (NYS Residents) & November 4, 11,18, 25, extended 5-9pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 THURSDAYS
New Museum
Pay-What-You-Wish Thursdays
📅 November 5, 12, 19, 26; 7-9pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Museum of the Moving Image
Free Thursdays
📅 November 5, 12, 19, 26; 2-6pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Brooklyn Children’s Museum *
Free Community Thursdays
📅 November 5, 12, 19, 26; 2-5pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
National Museum of Mathematics *
Free Play
📅 Thursday, November 12; 3-7pm and Sunday, November 15; 10am-1pm *Days of week change monthly
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 FRIDAYS
Poster House
Free First Friday & Free Third Sunday
📅 November 6; 10am-9pm and November 15; 10am-6pm (Closed Mon-Wed)
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Frick Collection
Free Louis Vuitton First Fridays, 5:30-9pm & PWYW Wednesdays, 1:30-5:30pm
📅 November 6; 5:30-9pm & November 4, 11,18, 25
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Whitney Museum of American Art *
Free Fridays & Second Sundays + 25 yo & under
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 5-10pm & November 8
*Free daily for 25 yo & under
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Morgan Library & Museum *
Free Fridays & Free College Sundays
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 5-8pm & College Sundays: November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Museum of Modern Art *
Free Uniqlo Friday Nights (NYS Residents)
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 5:30-8:30pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Japan Society
Free First Fridays
📅 November 6
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Noguchi Museum
Free First Friday
📅 November 6
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Asia Society
Free Fridays
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
New-York Historical Society *
Pay-What-You-Wish Fridays
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 5-8pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Neue Galerie *Reopening after 5 1/2 month renovation!
Free First Fridays
🗓️ November 13, 5-8pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
New York Hall of Science *
Free Community Fridays
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 2-5pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Museum at Eldridge Street *
Pay-What-You-Wish Mondays & Fridays
📅 November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & November 6, 13, 20, 27
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 SATURDAYS
The Jewish Museum
Free Saturdays
📅 November 7, 14, 21, 28
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 SUNDAYS
9/11 Memorial & Museum*
Free Admission Mondays + First Free First Sundays (NY, CT, NJ Residents, Employees & Students); 4-7pm
📅 November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; 5:30-7pm & November 7 (Closed Select Tues)
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Pioneer Works *
Free Second Sundays
📅 November 8; 12-6pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Poster House *
Free First Friday & Free Third Sunday
📅 November 6; 10am-9pm and November 15; 10am-6pm (Closed Mon-Wed)
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Whitney Museum of American Art *
Free Fridays & Second Sundays + 25 yo & under
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 5-10pm & November 8
*Free daily for 25 yo & under
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Studio Museum in Harlem *
PWYW Wednesdays- Saturdays & Free Studio Sundays
📅 November 1-30 (Wed-Sat) and November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Morgan Library & Museum *
Free Fridays & Free College Sundays
📅 November 6, 13, 20, 27; 5-8pm & College Sundays: November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Guggenheim Museum
Pay-What-You-Wish Tuesdays & Sundays
📅 November 3, 10, 17, 24 & November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; 4-5:30pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
National Museum of Mathematics *
Free Play
📅 Thursday, November 12; 3-7pm and Sunday, November 15; 10am-1pm *Days of week change monthly
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📅 DAILY
Hispanic Society Museum & Library *
Free For All
🗓️ November 1-30; Closed: Mon – Wed
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Free For All
📅 November 1-30; Closed Mon & Tues
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
National Museum of the American Indian
Free For All
📅 November 1-30
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Free for All (except ticketed exhibitions)
📅 November 1-30; Closed Mon & Tues
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Free For All
📅 November 1-30; Closed Tues & Wed
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Pay-What-You-Wish
📅 November 1-30; Closed Mon & Tues
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art *
Pay-What-You-Wish (NYS residents & NY, NJ, CT students)
📅 November 1-30 *Date Night at the The Met on Fridays & Saturdays; Closed Wed
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
American Museum of Natural History*
Pay-What-You-Wish (NYS residents) (except ticketed exhibitions)
📅 November 1-30
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Pay-What-You-Wish
📅 November 1-30; Closed Mon-Wed
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Free For All
📅 November 1-30; Closed Mon & Tues
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Museum of the City of New York
Pay-What-You-Wish (NYS residents) & Free Late Night Wednesdays
📅 November 1-30 (NYS Residents) & November 4, 11,18, 25, extended 5-9pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Pay-What-You-Wish
📅 November 1-30, 5-6pm
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Free for All
📅 November 1-30; Closed Tues & Wed
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
📌 FREE Admission: Library Culture Pass (Queens Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and The New York Public Library), IDNYC (NYC Residents), Bank of America Museums On Us (Cardholders, First Weekend of Month), Cool Culture Family Pass, SNAP/EBT, CUNY Students
