From 6pm to 9pm today, all the museums along the Upper East Side's vaunted
Museum Mile are offering
free admission as part of the 31st Annual Museum Mile Festival.
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. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually. This year's 31st annual festival kicks off at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with an opening ceremony, at 5:45pm, on the steps of its landmark building on Fifth Avenue @ 89th Street.
Via
Gothamist, the participating 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; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Labels: "celibacy", art, history, museums, NYC, UES
From 6pm to 9pm today, all the museums along the Upper East Side's vaunted Museum Mile are offering free admission as part of the 31st Annual Museum Mile Festival. 
