Admission & hours
Reservations are recommended; not required.
Hours
Museum Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Last admission 4:30 pm
Reservations are recommended; not required. Groups of 10 or more people require advance reservations. Discounted admission, memberships, and free admission Tuesdays are not extended to groups of 10 or more people. Please note that number of tickets is limited to 9 people. If you would like to schedule a group program, please contact Alessandra Uka.
Contact us at:
203-869-0376
The Museum Café
Tuesday - Sunday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Bruce Museum Store
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Free Parking is available on the Museum property.
The Museum grand hall, Museum store, and Aux Délices at the Bruce Café are all open free to the public.
Exhibition Schedule
Kimberly Klauss: Primary Sources
October 8–December 1, 2024, Gallery Lobby – Now Open
Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination
October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025, Vicki Netter Fitzgerald Gallery – Now Open
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025, Changing Art Gallery – Now Open
Conservation Through the Arts: Celebrating the Federal Duck Stamp
September 5, 2024 - February 9, 2025, Changing Science Gallery – Now Open
Tara Donovan: Aggregations
May 12, 2024–March 9, 2025, Sculpture Gallery – Now Open
Hockney/Origins: Early Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection
December 6, 2023–ongoing, The Blavatnik Family Gallery – Now Open
The William L. Richter Collection
April 2, 2023–August 3, 2025, The William L. Richter Gallery – Temporarily closed October 21-October 28, 2024
The Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery
Permanent Exhibition of Mineral Wonder – Now Open
Permanent Science Galleries: Natural Cycles Shape Our Land
Permanent Exhibition – Now Open
Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape
November 9, 2024–ongoing, Grossman Family Gallery – Opening November 9, 2024
The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
November 16, 2024–June 15, 2025, Barbara and Edward Netter Foundation Gallery – Opening November 16, 2024
Closed Mondays and major holidays:
- Christmas Eve - early closing 3:00 pm*
- Christmas Day - closed
- News Year's Eve - early closing 3:00 pm
- New Year's Day - closed
- Sunday, Easter - closed.
- Memorial Day - closed
- Juneteenth - closed
- Independence Day - closed
- Labor Day - closed
- Thanksgiving Eve early closing- 3:00 pm.*
- Thanksgiving - closed
- Annual Cleaning - Closed August 18–August 26, 2024
*Early closing at 3 p.m. last admission at 2:30 pm.
Admission
Admission is free on Tuesdays from 10 am–5 pm.
Admission Wednesday-Sunday from 10 am-5 pm:
Members - Free
Adults - $20
Senior Citizens (62+) - $15
Children under 5 - Free
Student - $15
A note about discounted admission: discounts and free admission for reciprocal museum memberships are applied in person only. Do not reserve tickets online if you wish to redeem discounted admission.
The Bruce Museum is accessible to individuals with disabilities. *click here to learn more about our accessibility initiatives*
The Bruce Museum is a participant in Museums for All, which supports free admission with the presentation of one EBT card for up to four individuals in the same group (effective during regular business hours).
Bruce Museum is a participant in the Blue Star Museums program.
On the first full weekend of every month, general admission to the Bruce Museum is free for all Bank of America cardholders thanks to our partnership with the Bank of America Museums on Us program.
