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Museum Mile
Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue, an avenue in Manhattan in the City of New York, running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side in a neighborhood known as Carnegie Hill.
New York City officially designated this segment as Museum Mile because it is the location of nine museums, several of which are world-renowned.
The nine museums and their locations are:
- 104th St. El Museo del Barrio
(212) 831-7272
http://www.elmuseo.org
- 103rd St. Museum of the City of New York
(212) 534-1672
http://www.mcny.org
- 92nd St. The Jewish Museum
(212) 423-3200
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org
- 91st St. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
(212) 849-8400
http://www.si.edu/ndm
- 89th St. National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
(212) 369-4880
http://www.nationalacademy.org
- 88th St. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
(212) 423-3500
http://www.guggenheim.org
- 86th St. Neue Galerie New York
(212) 628-6200
http://www.neuegalerie.org/enter.html
- 83rd St. Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center
(212) 439-8700
http://www.goethe.de/newyork
- 82nd St. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org
Other museums in the area include:
- 75th St. and Madison Ave. Whitney Museum of American Art
- 70th St. Frick Collection
Last updated: 10-11-2005 19:09:48
03-10-2013 05:06:04
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