Fringe benefits

[redbird]

I have been told/reminded that my McGraw-Hill ID will get me and a varying number of guests into a variety of New York museums that otherwise charge admission, sometimes quite high admission. The list includes the Met, MOMA (currently $20/person, otherwise, IIRC), the Guggenheim, and Natural History (less relevant, as cattitude and I are members.

Suggestions of things to see are welcome, as are offers/requests to accompany me. I haven't looked up evening/weekend hours yet.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I'll be pleased to come visit and go with you sometime, if you like.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind toddler company, we'd love to join you at Natural History sometime.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

Wanna do MOMA!

[beginning.livejournal.com]

Wow. If you're into medieval art at all, go see the Cloisters.

[liv]

Enh. I went there, being very much into Mediaeval art, and I was pretty unimpressed. In very large part cos most of it isn't art, it's bits of buildings. Partly, I'm spoilt because I live in a continent where whole Mediaeval buildings in situ are easily accessible. But the impression I got was that most of the actual art is in the Met. Obviously, YMMV.

[beginning.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'm a Medieval Studies major specializing in medieval art, and I love it there. It's a bit of a pilgrimage site (no pun intended) here for medievalists. Of course, you could be right when pointing out the continental differences; I'm sure that does change things quite a bit.

I had to look up YMMV. New one to me. :)

[redbird]

I go there every few years--it's in the neighborhood. It's got what seems like a good collection of Christian ornaments and ritual stuff, and on a snowy day in March the sheltered gardens are pleasant.

What I like best, though, you don't need to pay admission for: the view. The rich man who gave them the money to set this up bought the most visible bits of the cliffs across the river, to protect them from development, so the view from the Cloisters would be green and pristine. It worked: but the view is just as good from elsewhere in that park.