Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum
Title: New York Transit Museum Tour
Date & Time: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM (Tour begins promptly at 3:15 PM)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: 20
Admission: Free! (ART Members only)
Location: 99 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join us for a tour of the New York Transit Museum—from an archivist’s POV! Come for a behind-the-scenes chat at the museum with Collections Department staff as we tour current exhibits and talk about the joys and challenges of managing a collection that ranges from full-sized vintage subway cars to dime-sized tokens.
This is an in-person event limited to 20 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
How to find the New York Transit Museum
The Transit Museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, reachable by over 20 bus and subway lines; the nearest subway stations are Hoyt-Schermerhorn, Jay Street-Metrotech, and Borough Hall. The museum's main entrance is at the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Boerum Place.
Meeting location
The tour will meet and begin at the lobby inside the main entrance, which is down two flights of stairs. A wheelchair-accessible entrance is located on the corner of Schermerhorn and Court Streets.
About
Founded in 1976, the New York Transit Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of New York’s mass transportation—from groundbreaking engineering feats and the labor of workers who carved tunnels over a century ago, to the communities transformed by transit and the ever-evolving technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Located underground in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn, the Museum’s platform level spans a full city block and features a rotating selection of twenty vintage subway and elevated cars, some dating back to 1904.
Visitors can board our historic train cars, sit behind the wheel of a city bus, walk through a century of turnstile design, and explore changing exhibitions that illuminate the cultural, social, and technological past—and future—of mass transit.
Learn more at https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/
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