New York Transit Museum
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.
Mining the Archives: Vending Machines and Mass Transit
The Subway Sun A Curatorial Conversation
2025 New York Transit Museum: A Place for Everyone
A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons
Iconic Transit Maps with Mark Ovenden
Pathways to Access: MTA and the ADA
Celebrating 10 Years of Digital Art with MTA Arts & Design
Subway Portraits with Sirui Ma
Curator Talk: Shining a light on The Subway Sun
Museums without Walls: the MTA and the Met Intersect
MTA's Open Data Stories
Mining the Archives: The Citizen Inventor
Art Crossings at Penn Station and Moynihan Train Hall
Second Avenue Subway - Building New York City's Most Famous Thing Never Built
2024 Friends of the New York Transit Museum Gala
Trolleys, Trains, and Transit Museums
Art Tracks with Natalia Irina Roman
Last Stop, Coney Island
When Driving Is Not An Option
Online Exhibit Walkthrough: What's New - Telling Transit Stories
Book Talk: Inclusive Transportation - A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Placemaking and Displacement Through the Lens of Public Transit: Little Syria
MTA Climate Action
Grand Central Madison's Inaugural Year
Book Talk: The Great American Transit Disaster
Latinx Art in the Subway