Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the City of New York, running from 82nd to 104th streets on the Upper East Side in a neighborhood known as Carnegie Hill. The "mile", which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world, is actually two blocks longer than one mile.[1] Ten museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue. An eleventh museum, the Museum for African Art, will be joining the ensemble in 2009 at 110th Street, the first new museum constructed on the Mile since the Guggenheim in 1959.[2] 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.[3]
Museums on the mile
- 104th St. El Museo del Barrio
- 103rd St. Museum of the City of New York
- 94th St. International Center of Photography
- 92nd St. The Jewish Museum
- 91st St. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- 89th St. National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
- 88th St. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- 86th St. Neue Galerie New York
- 83rd St. Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center
- 82nd St. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
References
- ^ Sean Daly (2003-04-13). "Museum Mile High". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/04/13/AR2005041501248_pf.html. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- ^ Sewell Chan (2007-02-09). "Museum for African Art Finds its Place". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/arts/design/09muse.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1171034919-Ngcv5cZscyaXSLcM4mrzXw&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- ^ "New Drive Promoting 5th Ave.'s 'Museum Mile'". The New York Times. 1979-06-27. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F1FFA395D12728DDDAE0A94DE405B898BF1D3. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
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