For family, friends, teachers and virtually everyone on your list, one of the best gifts is a Museum Memebership to one of the great cultural institutions in our town. It is a gift to use again and again and perfect for all ages. In addition to unlimited free admission, Museum Members gain access to exclusive Museum Events such as Galas and Private Exhibition Previews, discounts to the Museum Shops, Cafés and Restaurants, discounted tickets for guests, extended Museum hours, and so much more. It is truly a gift that keeps giving!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States, with more than two million works ranging from Classical Antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European Masters, to an extensive collection of American and Modern Art. Met Members enjoy free unlimited admission to both the Met and The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, access to the exclusive Members Dining Room, members-only Shopping Days when the Museum is closed to the public, and eligibility to rent elegant rooms for private parties. What’s more, members at the Sustaining Level also receive reciprocal membership privileges at fifteen other art museums across the country.
Don’t miss the current exhibitions, including Matisse: In Search of True Painting; Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years; Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop; and Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art’s collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist’s books, film, and electronic media. MoMA Members experience the Museum in the best way possible! In addition to the basics, exclusive member privileges include access to exclusive members-only gallery talks, early viewing hours of special exhibitions, special Member Shopping Days with extra discounts, and so much more!
Current Exhibitions include 9 + 1 Ways of Being Political: 50 Years of Political Stances in Architecture and Urban Design; Edvard Munch: The Scream; Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde; Goldfinger: The Design of an Iconic Film Title; and New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art is focused on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Members of the Whitney enjoy many core benefits, including free tickets to Whitney artist lectures and seminars, invitations to exclusive Morning Viewing Hours and Preview Days and private after-hours access during Member Saturday Nights. Members at the Dual Level and above receive free admission to top modern and contemporary art museums around the world.
Don’t miss The Whitney’s Current Exhibitions! Including: Wade Guyton OS, American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe, Richard Artschwager!, Trisha Baga: Plymouth Rock 2, and Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Membership provides free admission to the museum’s three locations, in New York, Venice and Bilbao, as well as to a yearly Art After Dark event. Have friends that enjoy the museum but can’t commit full-time? Members receive tickets for two to exhibitions and private viewing parties, and additionalguests accompanying members receive half-priced tickets. Best of all, a basic individual membership package is 100% tax deductible.
A few of the Guggenheim’s most noteworthy current exhibits include: Thannhauser Collection, Gabriel Orozco’s Asterisms, Picasso Black and White, Kandinsky 1911–1913, Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, and Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is an art gallery and history museum founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City, USA and its people. MCNY Members enjoy an invitation for two to Members’ Appreciation Night, Gala events, including the Chairman’s Leadership Award Dinner, Cabaret, and the Spring Lecture Symposium and Luncheon, and much more!
Current MCNY Exhibitions include Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced (opening March 2013); Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s; From Farm to City: Staten Island, 1661-2012; and The World of D.D. and Leslie Tillett
