Museum Mile

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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:

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:

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