Pay-what-you-wish policy from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays.
(The museum used to have a pay-what-you-wish policy on Fridays, with slightly more limited hours).
In 2018 the Met was allowed to change its pay-what-you-wish policy of 48 years to require that visitors from outside New York State pay $25.
SMITH The Met says it is the only major museum in the world with a "pure" pay-as-you-wish policy.
On Thursday, the Met announced that as of March 1st, the pay-what-you-wish policy, in place since 1970, will apply only to residents of New York State.
Folks usually pay a dollar ($17 less than general admission), according to the woman who took my $5. Though several New York museums have a permanent pay-what-you-wish policy (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History), you feel sort of weaselly doing it.
The pay-what-you-like policy has caused a certain amount of anxiety among diners, much as the pay-what-you-wish policy at, say, the Metropolitan Museum can cause crises of conscience in the face of a ticket-taking docent's all-knowing gaze.
The old pay-what-you-wish policy, born of the Great Depression, will not be reinstated.
(Since 2013, it adheres to an amendment to its lease with the city that allows it to renegotiate the pay-as-you-wish policy in the future).
Tickets range from $15 to $40, with a pay-what-you-wish policy on Thursdays and unsold seats to other shows discounted to $7 an hour before a play begins.
