The 47th annual Museum Mile Festival is back this June with a slew of art-making activities, exhibitions and musical performances for all ages. It's NYC's biggest block party, running along Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street and 110th Street on Tuesday, June 10 from 6-9pm.
New Yorkers can visit several of New York City’s finest cultural institutions, all of which are free and open to the public throughout the evening.
Here's the list of participating museums and highlighted activities:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a chance to peek at its current exhibitions, including the newly opened P.S. Art: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will host outdoor activities on Fifth Avenue, including artmaking, leaf rubbings, street tree identification, and sidewalk water painting. That's all tied to its current exhibition, Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, which you can go inside and see, too.
- Neue Galerie New York will open its doors from 6–9pm with access to its galleries, including the famed Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie.
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum invites visitors to explore its current exhibition, Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. The exhibition features 25 commissions that illustrate the ways design is embedded in contemporary life.
- The Jewish Museum presents the exhibitions, Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity and The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt. Outside on Fifth Avenue, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars will perform high-energy Eastern European Yiddish music, klezmer.
- Museum of the City of New York will host street games, Bhangra dance, crafts and artifact exploration out front of the building. Inside, be sure to explore the exhibit Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor.
- El Museo del Barrio invites attendees to enjoy art-making and music from DJ Chiquita Brujita.
- The Africa Center presents Sarah Elawad's When the War is Over, an exhibition that transforms the center's Fifth Avenue windows. Also stop by to hear live music by Alsarah and the Nubatones.
Expect additional programming from the following partners:
- The Asia Society offers a tattoo station and coloring projects.
- Church of the Heavenly Rest presents a performance by the Jazz Vespers and the Queer Big Apple Corps Marching Band. Plus, you can take a scavenger hunt through the parish archives.
- The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World invites visitors to explore its latest exhibition, Rethinking Etruria, which delves into the still mysterious Etruscan culture.
- New York Academy of Medicine will offer crafts and photo opps.
- 92Y is giving away glitter tattoos.
The fun kicks off at Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Avenue) at 5:45pm with an opening ceremony.
Registration is not required.