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by Bennet D.

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The Museum Mile Festival, held annually, provides free entry to several of the world’s top art collections during extended evening hours. This event takes place along Fifth Avenue, featuring eight participating venues: the Africa Center, El Museo del Barrio, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Jewish Museum, Neue Galerie New York, and the Museum of the City of New York. The festival begins at 6pm, regardless of weather conditions; for more information on exhibits and details, visit each museum’s website.

Fore more information on the aforementioned institutions, please click on their links:

The Africa Center: https://theafricacenter.org/

El Museo del Barrio: https://www.elmuseo.org/

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: https://www.guggenheim.org/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/

The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/

The Jewish Museum: https://thejewishmuseum.org/

Neue Galerie New York: https://www.neuegalerie.org/

The Museum of the City of New York: https://www.mcny.org/

The History of the Museum Mile Festival

Launched in 1978 to boost public recognition of its member establishments and encourage support for the arts, the Museum Mile Festival has become a template for similar events worldwide. This successful collaboration includes eight institutions: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and The Africa Center. Additionally, several neighborhood collaborators such as the New York Academy of Medicine, the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Asia Society, 92NY, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYC Kids Project, The People’s Bus, and AKC Museum of the Dog will participate in the festivities.

Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are part of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), a varied alliance of 34 nonprofit museums, performing arts venues, historical societies, zoos, and botanical gardens in New York that maintain a private-public partnership with the City and occupy City-owned properties.

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