NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM
From our 1936 subway station in Brooklyn to Grand Central Terminal, explore the past, present and future of mass transit.
NOW AVAILABLE
Celebrate the Museum’s 50th Anniversary with our first-ever mobile app, featuring a scavenger hunt across the five boroughs, a family-friendly hunt in Grand Central Terminal, transit trivia games, special photo filters, and more. Discover hidden transit history, test your knowledge, and earn rewards as you go.
Beat the summer heat on a vintage train ride to the beach!
$60/$40 – Adult/Child
$50/$30 – Member Adult/Child
Join a deep dive lecture on the history of the R46 trains and the Museum.
$15 General Public / $10 Members
The Museum transforms into a two-level dance party powered by the rich, analog sound of vinyl, with disco spinning upstairs on the mezzanine and funk and hip-hop taking over down on the platform.
$50
Exhibits
NOW ON VIEW
The New York Transit Museum: 50 Years of Stories
Drawn from the Museum’s vast collection of photographs and objects, this special anniversary exhibition highlights unusual transit experiments, bold proposals for improving the system, and the memorable personalities who shaped it.
NOW ON VIEW
Ode to the Orange Seats
Featuring works by 14 artists, this exhibit is a loving tribute to an increasingly rare sight in New York’s subways: the orange and yellow bucket seats first introduced on R44 cars in 1971.
Now On View
FAREwell, MetroCard
As OMNY becomes the new way to pay, this exhibition invites visitors to explore the MetroCard’s origins, its systemwide rollout, the technology behind it, and the many ways it became a cultural icon for a generation of riders.
Now On View
Ticket To Ride
Through archival photographs, ephemera, and objects from the Transit Museum’s extensive collection, Ticket to Ride shows the evolution of fare collection across all of New York’s modes of transportation.
Now On View
Moving the Millions
Home to twenty vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1907, and a working signal tower, the Museum’s working platform level spans a full city block.
PERMANENT
On the Streets: New York’s Trolleys and Buses
Explore the story of above ground mobility and surface transit from the early 1800s to the present.
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Join our community of transit fans, history lovers, and curious New Yorkers. Your membership or gift helps keep the Museum a place where everyone can connect with the city’s past, present, and future.
