We just had the Museum Mile June Festival here, when traditionally on one night admission to all the Museums is free.
A woman I knew and I took advantage of this back about..wow, was it 2002? And to our surprise, we ran into people we knew who were doing the same thing we were...
I loved all of it, but the Guggenheim was a revelation. We started at the top and wound our way down past a beautifully laid out series of exhibits...
We did not stop at the Metropolitan, being too eager to get to other places we ordinarily did not go to... but I can attest the Met is worth it, any time...
Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the city of New York, in the United States, running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side,[20] in an area sometimes called Upper Carnegie Hill.[21] The Mile, which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world, is actually three blocks longer than one mile (1.6 km). Nine museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue.[22] A tenth museum, the Museum for African Art, joined the ensemble in 2009, however its Museum at 110th Street, the first new museum constructed on the Mile since the Guggenheim in 1959,[23] opened in late 2012. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation.[24]
Museums on the mile
- 110th Street – Museum for African Art (opened fall 2012)[25]
- 105th Street – El Museo del Barrio
- 103rd Street – Museum of the City of New York
- 92nd Street – The Jewish Museum
- 91st Street – Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution)
- 89th Street – National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
- 88th Street – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- 86th Street – Neue Galerie New York
- 83rd Street – Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center
- 82nd Street – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum Mile Festival
The annual Museum Mile Festival traditionally takes place here on the second Tuesday in June from 6 – 9 p.m. It was established in 1979 to increase public awareness of its member institutions and promote public support of the arts in New York City.[26] The first festival was held on June 26, 1979.[27] The ten museums are open free that evening to the public. Several of the participating museums offer outdoor art activities for children, live music and street performers.[28] During the event, Fifth Avenue is closed to traffic.Gallery
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Fifth Avenue, 1878: illustration from The Wickedest Woman in New York: Madame Restell, the Abortionist by Clifford Browder -
Fifth Avenue, 1918, photograph from the Library of Congress Collection -
Memorial to New York architect Richard Morris Hunt, Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets -
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