When : Tuesday, June 11, 2024 6PM - 9PM, rain or shine
Where : Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 105th Street
Directions : 4 or 5 IRT to 86th Street station, or #6 to 86th, 96th and 103rd Street stations, walk two blocks west to Fifth Avenue
• 2 or 3 train to 110th Street and Lenox Avenue, walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 105th
Street.
Billed by festival organizers
as New York's biggest block party, the
Museum Mile Festival in New York City is a mile-long celebration of art and culture.
The
festival is held annually, usually on an evening in June on the
second Tuesday of the month.
Stretching along Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 105th (which is roughly a mile) the streets are closed off to cars. And, for at least one special day and evening -- the whole
mile becomes a stroller's heaven.
This
year, the 46th annual Museum Mile Festival is scheduled for Tuesday,
June 11, 2024 from 6PM - 9PM, rain or shine.
All about the Museum Mile Festival
The first Museum Mile Festival was held in 1978 with the aim of
letting people experience the many museums along 5th Avenue, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National
Design Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- with FREE admission to all.
Yet museums certainly aren't the only attraction!
Many of the
museums also provide art related activities for kids, and musicians
and bands of various flavors can be found playing everywhere along the avenue.
The festival also plays host to a variety of street performers
who entertain crowds up and down the mile-long stretch.
"New York City's biggest block party" (photo courtesy museummilefestival.org)
In total, well over a million people have participated in the
Museum Mile Festival over the years. The Museum Mile Festival has such a popular reputation,
in fact, that tourists from the surrounding area come
to New York specifically for the event -- to enjoy New York's rich
cultural heritage all for FREE and to rub shoulders with like-minded New Yorkers.
More about the Museum Mile Festival around the Web:
Museum Mile Festival - The official site, with information on this year's festivities including the complete schedule of participating museums, map & directions, lists of performers and street entertainment, photos.
