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Museums in New York

Everything on this site filed under museums — the date as the box office or the gallery published it, and a link to where we read it.

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Museums

Lucas Museum opens 22 September

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's 300,000-square-foot museum opens with 1,300 works across 30-plus galleries. For a New York museumgoer the draw is not Star Wars, it is the room of reproductions.

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MoMA: what closes, what opens

At MoMA in New York, the Kahlo and Rivera show ends 12 September and the Peggy Weil on 4 October. Between 15 September and 14 November, six more open — here are all the dates in one place.

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The Fire Museum is open again

Closed since May 2024 over the structural integrity of its 1904 firehouse, New York City's fire museum reopened on 20 August — days before 11 September 2026.

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Lenape Legacies opens 25 September

The Museum of the City of New York opens a show organised with the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective, with more than 30 artists — and no past tense.

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The Brooklyn Museum sets out its autumn

Six shows open at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, in October: manga in the Great Hall, fifty European works from the Pearlman Collection, Hopi kachina dolls and a lobby installation on the Tuskegee Airmen.