Free Tastings at Coolidge Corner Wine and Spirits
Free: Thu & Fri 6pm – 8pm, Sat 4pm – 7pm Coolidge Corner Wine & Spirits offers free wine tasting at their store which is located in the heart of Coolidge Corner. The Saturday tasting sessions are paired with food from local restaurants as well. Some participants have been Finale Bakery, Michael’s Deli & Upper...
Art Institute of Chicago
Free: Thursdays 5pm – 8pm The Art Institute of Chicago can be traced back to a free art school and gallery founded in 1866. Today, the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world and contains more than 260,000 works of art. The...
Museum of Stained Glass Windows
Free: All time The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows is a permanent exhibition which opened in February 2000 at Chicago’s Navy Pier entertainment complex. It is the first American museum dedicated solely to the art of stained glass windows. The museum holds over 150 individual pieces and the majority of the works originally came...
Smart Museum
Free: All time The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The permanent collection of over 10,000 objects includes works by Francisco Goya, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Ansel Adams, and...
Chapultepec Zoo
Free: All time A zoo located in Chapultepec Park; it is one of four zoos near Mexico City, and the best known Mexican zoo which is popular for its pandas. Address: Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, 11850, Mexico City Opening hours: Daily 9:00am – 4:30 pm / Closed on Mondays Direction: Subway Line 7 Auditorio...
Coyoacan
Free: All time A former village south of central Mexico City, this charming neighborhood of cobblestone streets, brightly painted colonial houses and tree-shaded plazas was home to Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky, Octavio Paz and hundreds of other artists over the decades. The word Coyoacan is derived from the náhuatl meaning “place of the coyotes”....
Fundidora Park
Free: All time A urban sustainable park located on the site of the former Monterrey Foundry Property with an area of 142 hectares. Also called “Fundidora Park Industrial Archeology Place Museum” it is filled with many recreational areas, art and culture, business, walking tracks, one artificial lake, playgrounds and a permanent road course which is...
Zacatecas Cultural Festival
Free: All time Bob Dylan, Gloria Gaynor, Kansas and more have been part of it. You can find painting exhibitions, photography, films, sculptures, as well as books and magazines of local and national writers, academic forums and workshops among other activities. All the events are free during this festival which occurs every year the last...
Indie Music Shows | Oh My Rockness
Free: See schedule Run by a couple of Brooklynites, the site Oh My Rockness has the most thorough and updated listing of indie acts that are playing in the city. Since most of the shows are of up-and-coming bands, some of them are free. And when they’re not free, many of them cost as low...
Coney Island Tour
Free: All time Located in the peninsula in southwestern Brooklyn, Coney Island is Coney Island is well known as the site of amusement parks and a seaside resort. The attractions reached their peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and years of neglect. In recent years,...
Queens Museum
Free: All time Well, Queens Museum is technically not “free.” But! The admission fee is indeed a “suggested” donation. Feel free to interpret it as you wish. If on a tight budget, know that you can pay $1 or nothing at all to visit the museum. One of the most popular permanent exhibitions in the...
A.I.R. Gallery
Free: All time In 1972, a group of women artists founded A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) Gallery—the first artists-run gallery for women in the United States. A.I.R.’s goal is to provide a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists to present work of quality and diversity. A.I.R. is an artist directed and maintained gallery, providing...
