Art and museum lovers will soon have the opportunity to visit some of New York City’s most famous museums for free thanks to a festival.
This is because it returns Museum Mile Festivala free annual event in which several museums of the well-known Museum Mile, located on Fifth Avenue from Calle 85 to Calle 105, open their doors at night.
Cars are not allowed on this stretch, making the festival a walker’s paradise with plenty of other attractions including buskers, art-related activities for kids, food vendors, and more. This year the host of the event is the emblematic Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan calls this area “Museum Mile” due to the great richness and cultural diversity of the museums found there.
The event will take place on Tuesday June 14 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The participating museums are:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street.
New Gallery New York: 1048 5th Avenue at 86th Street.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: 2 East 91st Street btw 5th Avenue & Madison Avenue.
The Jewish Museum: 1109 5th Ave at E 92nd Street.
Museum of City of New York: 1220 5th Avenue at 103rd Street.
The neighborhood museum: 1230 5th Avenue at 104th Street.
The Africa Center: 1280 5th Ave at 109th Street.
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