Museum Mile (New York City)

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This sign is now brown as the Museum Mile has been declared a Historic District .
The Guggenheim Museum on Museum Mile opened its doors in 1959 and was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright .
The Metropolitain Museum of Art is at the south end of the Museum Mile.
The Neue Galerie on Museum Mile shows works of art from Austria and Germany from the beginning of the 20th century - including the painting Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt .

Museum Mile is the name for part of Fifth Avenue in New York City 's Manhattan borough that is home to a number of museums that are among the most important in the city.

location

The Museum Mile is longer than an easy mile and extends on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side from 70th and 82nd Street to 104th and 110th Street. Most of the museums are located in the Carnegie Hill district . In 2011, the Museum Mile extended north when the Museum for African Art opened its doors on Fifth Avenue and 110th Street . The then Mayor Michael Bloomberg emphasized that this is the first newly built museum on Museum Mile since the Guggenheim opened in 1959. Southeast of Museum Mile on the Upper East Side is the Met Breuer in the former building of the Whitney Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue and 75th Street.

Museums on the Museum Mile

Museum Mile Festival

In addition to the regular offers of the various museums with guided tours, lectures, etc., almost all of the institutions in the Museum Mile organize the Museum Mile Festival once a year on the second Tuesday in June from 6 to 9 p.m. This Museum Mile Festival was established on June 26, 1979 to raise awareness and awareness of the Museum Mile museums and to promote public support for the arts in New York City.

Well over a million people have attended this annual festival over the past 20 years. Fifth Avenue will be closed to traffic that evening so attendees can move freely between 82nd Street and 104th Street. The special and permanent exhibitions of the ten participating cultural institutions can be visited free of charge. Live music is offered in front of the entrances - from jazz and musicals to classical string quartets . Some of the participating museums have outdoor art activities for children. In addition, street performers show their skills on Fifth Avenue. The Frick Collection is also on the Museum Mile, but does not participate in the Museum Mile Festival. Instead, this museum offers free entry on his "birthday" in December.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sean Daly: Museum Mile High. In: The Washington Post . April 13, 2003, accessed July 15, 2008 .
  2. ^ Sewell Chan: Museum for African Art Finds its Place. In: The New York Times . February 9, 2007, accessed July 15, 2008 .
  3. ^ New Drive Promoting 5th Ave.'s 'Museum Mile'. In: The New York Times . June 27, 1979. Retrieved July 15, 2008 .
  4. ^ "Museum Mile Festival held in New York" UPI NewsTrack (June 8, 2004.)
  5. ^ New drive promoting Fifth Avenue's 'Museum Mile', The New York Times , June 27, 1979.
  6. ^ Fass, Allison and Murray, Liz (2000) "Talking to the Streets for Art" The New York Times June 11, 2000, p.17, col. 2.

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