Museum Mile Festival 2023

The Museum Mile Festival is a free annual event, where several museums along Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 105th Street open their doors with FREE admission for the evening. Car-free, Museum Mile features live programs, musical performances, exhibitions, art-making activities, and more!

Participating Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street More info here.
Check out exhibitions at The Met, create art, catch a performance, and see the newly opened exhibition P.S. Art: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids.

Neue Galerie New York: 1048 5th Avenue at 86th Street More info here.
Stop by the Neue Galerie on 86th Street to visit their outdoor pop-up, featuring activities and information about our collection and historic building. Please note that there will be no entry to the Neue Galerie, as they are closed through August 31st.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street More info here.
Enjoy free access to the Guggenheim exhibitions on view: Gego: Measuring Infinity, Sarah Sze: Timelapse, Young Picasso in Paris, A Year with Children 2023, and the Thannhauser Collection. The museum will also host a series of outdoor art-making activities using sustainable materials.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: 2 East 91st Street btw 5th Avenue & Madison Avenue. More info here.
Exhibitions on View: Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols examines the fascinating histories behind many of the symbols that instruct, protect, entertain, empower, and connect people. Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.

Design Activity:  Design Your Own Symbol. Activity ongoing 6-8 p.m. Outdoors (weather permitting) In coordination with the Give Me a Sign exhibition, visitors are invited to design symbols and participate in creative activities to co-create a Symbol Sourcebook of 2024.

The Jewish Museum: 1109 5th Ave at E 92nd Street More info here.
Exhibitions on view: The Sassoons, After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection, and Scenes from the Collection.

Family Art Activity: In a drop-in workshop for all ages, create a playful work of art using a variety of textures and materials inspired by artists in the exhibition After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection.

Museum of the City of New York: 1220 5th Avenue at 103rd Street More info here.
Tour their newest exhibition This is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture; our first photography triennial, New York Now: Home, or Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate— and make sure to grab a Kids’ Activity Guide for the little ones.

El Museo del Barrio: 1230 5th Avenue at 104th Street More info here. 
Celebrate the spring opening of Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, the Museum’s most ambitious presentation of its unique, complex, and culturally diverse permanent collection in over two decades.

The evening will feature an art-making workshop led by museum educators inspired by the indigenous patterning present in the exhibition, a live musical performance by Afro Dominicano, music by DJ Jomero, and more.

The Africa Center: 1280 5th Ave at 109th Street More info here.
Events will include a musical performance by West African Band Kakande, art-making workshops with iLLUSTRA8, and a first look at the Black Future Newsstand, an interactive installation created by The Black Thought Project and Media 2070.