FRIENDS OF THE NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM
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Mission Statement
Founded in 1976, the New York Transit Museum’s mission is to collect, exhibit, interpret and preserve the history, sociology, and technology of public transportation in the New York metropolitan region, and to conduct research and educational programs that will make the Museum’s extensive collection accessible and meaningful to a broad audience. Friends of the New York Transit Museum, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, was founded in 1995 to promote and raise funds for the Museum.
About This Cause
Founded in 1976, the New York Transit Museum is dedicated to telling and preserving the stories of mass transportation – extraordinary engineering feats, workers who labored in the tunnels over 100 years ago, communities that were drastically transformed, and the ever-evolving technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Housed underground in an authentic 1936 subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, the Transit Museum’s working platform level spans a full city block, and is home to a rotating selection of twenty vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1907. Visitors can board the vintage cars, sit at the wheel of a city bus, step through a time tunnel of turnstiles, and explore changing exhibits that highlight the cultural, social and technological history – and future – of mass transit. The New York Transit Museum is one of only a few museums in the world dedicated to telling the story of urban rail transportation, from the people who developed, operate, and ride it, to the city and region it has helped shape. We seek to serve an audience as diverse as transit riders, and therefore keep the barrier to entry represented by admission fees as low as possible: the Grand Central Gallery Annex is always free, and admission in Brooklyn is just $5 children/$10 adults. Between our two locations, we welcome more than 600,000 total visitors for exhibitions and programs every year.