Museum Mile

When:Today, June 9, 2009
Time:6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where:5th Ave Museums
5th Ave
New York, NY
Cost:Free

One day a year, for the past 31 years, nine of the country’s finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile.

FREE ACCESS 6pm – 9pm to all the museums along the mile
Nine Museums.
* El Museo del Barrio
* Museum of the City of New York
* The Jewish Museum
* Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
* National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
* Neue Galerie New York
* Goethe-Institut/German Cultural Center
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art

23 car-free blocks 5th Avenue between 82nd & 105th
Live bands
Entertainment
Art-in-the street activities for kids

This year’s 31st annual festival kicks off at the Guggenheim Museum with an opening ceremony, at 5:45pm, on the steps of its landmark building on Fifth Avenue @ 89th Street