Museum Mile

The Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue, which is virtually one museum after another.  Whatever your taste, whether it be Modern, Renaissance, African, or Asian, there will be a museum in which to lose yourself and forget your worries.  There is also a Museum Mile Festival every year in June, when Fifth Avenue is closed to traffic, the museums are opened to the public, and the street is opened up as a Pedestrian Paradise, complete with a carnival atmosphere and street musicians. Beginning with El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street in Harlem, where you can see a pictorial and artistic history of Harlem, you move along to the Museum of the City of New York, then on to the Jewish Museum at 92nd Street.  Then comes the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (more popularly and simply known as the Met), and the Goethe House German Cultural Center. The fees for these museums are modest, and, if they don’t have a dining facility on site, most are within walking distance of one eatery or another.  Although it might not be possible to see every museum in one short day, it will definitely be fun to try!

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