Culture / Gallery / Upper East Side
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Salon 94
Serious contemporary art inside a Carnegie Hill mansion, and it costs nothing to walk in.
- Where
- 3 E 89th St, Upper East Side Open in Google Maps ↗
- Closed
- Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays
- Price
- $
- Go when
- Weekday afternoons, between shows
- Good for
- The staircase · Free · An hour
- Good with
- Solo · A date
- Website
- salon94.com
The art is the reason to go and the building is the reason to stay. Salon 94 occupies a Beaux-Arts mansion just off Fifth Avenue, and walking in gets you a serious contemporary program and a look inside a house most people only ever see from the street. The staircase alone justifies the visit.
What to know
Free, like almost every commercial gallery — nobody will ask you for anything. Check the site before you go: it closes between shows, and hours are gallery hours rather than museum hours. The Guggenheim is a block away and the Met is a walk down Fifth.
Going? Tell them MUSEENYC sent you. It's not a discount and there's nothing to redeem — we just want them to know where you heard it.