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The New York Transit Museum is a unique museum devoted to the impact of public transportation on the growth and development of the New York metropolitan region.
Visit the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn or our Grand Central Gallery & Store!
The New York Transit Museum is excited to welcome visitors back to our Court Street station home. For the health and safety of our visitors and staff, we have updated our schedule and policies. Here’s what you need to know before you visit.
The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region.
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.
In 1904, New York City’s very first subway ride left from the City Hall station amidst great civic pride. With exclusive access through the New York Transit Museum, explore the elegant chandeliers, leaded skylights, vaulted tile ceiling, and graceful curves of this decommissioned subway station.
Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn. The New York Transit Museum is located in a decommissioned subway station at 99 Schermerhorn Street. Advance tickets and masks are recommended but not required. Click here for hours, admission, and directions.
Explore our selection of rotating and long-term exhibits on view at the Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn and our Grand Central Gallery Annex.
The New York Transit Museum is a great place to learn more about public transit with many interpretive displays, cutaways of a bus, lessons about transit history, and sit inside historic transit vehicles.
Summer 2024 Vintage Train Ride Schedule. Beach Bound: Coney Island. Saturday, July 20th, 2024. Learn More. To the Rockaways by Rail. Sunday, August 11th, 2024. Learn More. Vintage equipment and route subject to change. Take a trip back in time on the New York Transit Museum's vintage train cars!
