Go to These Museums for Free on Saturday

On Saturday, you and one other person can get in free to a slew of museums around Connecticut, Westchester County and New York City with a ticket you can get at the Smithsonian Magazine website.

The Sept. 28 "Museum Day Live" event is an annual one sponsored by the Smithsonian Museums "in which participating museums across the country open their doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket... for free," according to the Smithsonian Magazine website. For the ticket, go to the magazine's website.

Here are some of the rules and restrictions:

• Only an official Museum Day Live! ticket is eligible for free entry. Official tickets can be found here on the Museum Day Live! website soon.
• One ticket per household, for two people.
• A ticket will gain entry to only one of the participating museums, excluding parking and special events and exhibits.
• If museum reaches capacity, museum has the right to limit the number of guests until space becomes available.

Connecticut

• Stamford: Stamford Museum & Nature Center

• Greenwich: Bruce Museum

• Fairfield: Bellarmine Museum of Art (free every day)

• Fairfield: The Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery (free every day)

• Bridgeport: Discovery Museum (admission is free this day but outside the Smithsonian Museum program)

• Ridgefield: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

• Danbury: Danbury Museum & Historical Society

• New Haven: New Haven Museum

• New Haven: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

• Bristol: American Clock & Watch Museum

• Bristol: Imagine Nation Museum

• Waterbury: Mattatuck Museum

• Farmington: Hill-Stead Museum

• Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society

• Hartford Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

• Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society

• Essex: Connecticut River Museum

• Lebanon Jonathan Trumbull Jr. House (free every day)
  

• Mashantucket: Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center

• Tolland: Old Tolland County Courthouse

• Tolland: Old Tolland County Jail & Museum

• Woodstock: Roseland Cottage

• Essex: Connecticut River Museum

• New London: Custom House Maritime Museum

• New London: Lyman Allyn Art Museum

New York state:

• Marlboro: Gomez Mill House Museum and Historic Site
  

• Kingston: Hudson River Maritime Museum

• Peekskill: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

• Katonah: Katonah Museum of Art

• New Windsor: National Purple Heart Hall of Honor

• New Windsor: New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site

• Rye: Rye Historical Society - Square House Museum & Knapp Archives
  

• Mountainville: Storm King Art Center

LONG ISLAND

• Oyster Bay: Coe Hall 

• Oyster Bay: Oyster Bay: Oyster Bay Historical Society

• Garden City: Cradle of Aviation Museum

• Hempstead: Hofstra University Museum
  

• Garden City: Long Island Children's Museum

• Port Washington: Polish American Museum

• Huntington: Walt Whitman Birthplace

New York City:

• Asia Society Museum

• Bard Graduate Center

• Children's Museum of Manhattan

• China Institute Gallery
  

•  El Museo del Barrio

• Fraunces Tavern Museum

• Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden

•  Museum of American Finance

• Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators

• Museum of Arts and Design

• Museum of Chinese in America

• New York City Fire Museum

• Rubin Museum of Art

• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian

•  The Cathedral of St. John the Divine

• The Hispanic Society of America, Museum and Library

• The Jewish Museum

•  The Morgan Library & Museum

• The Skyscraper Museum

• The Studio Museum in Harlem

• The Ukrainian Museum

• The Vilcek Foundation

OTHER BORROUGHS

• Brooklyn: Waterfront Museum

• Bronx: Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

• Bronx: Van Cortlandt House Museum

• Bayside (Queens): The Bayside Historical Society

• Staten Island: Staten Island Museum

• Staten Island: The Noble Maritime Collection

• Staten Island: Historic Richmond Town

• Flushing (Queens): Queens Historical Society at the Kingsland Homestead