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Museums & galleries

The indoor half of the city — museums, galleries, historic houses and the cinemas still worth the trip. What to see, and when it is free.

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Everywhere worth going

GallerySalon 94 MuseumThe Frick Collection · The Noguchi Museum CinemaSyndicated Bar Theater Kitchen

Gallery

9.6Salon 94Upper East Side$Serious contemporary art inside a Carnegie Hill mansion, and it costs nothing to walk in.

Museum

9.5The Frick CollectionUpper East Side$Old Masters hung at the scale of a home. It feels like real luxury, because it was.9.1The Noguchi MuseumAstoria$A sculptor's own museum, in the building he worked in, with a garden in the middle.8.9The Metropolitan Museum of ArtUpper East Side$$Two million works and some genuinely magnificent rooms — go off-peak or the crowd wins.

Cinema

9.1Syndicated Bar Theater KitchenBushwick$$An open movie theatre with a proper bar attached — one of the best rooms in Bushwick to just hang around in.