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New York's Biggest Block Party: The 2017 Museum Mile Festival

The 2017 Museum Mile Festival will take place on Tuesday, June 13, from 6pm-9pm, rain or shine. The festival was started in 1978 by the museums that share the Museum Mile stretch of Fifth Avenue. Festivities will kick off at 5:45pm at Museo del Barrio. Then from 6pm-9pm, visit any participating museum, FREE.

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Institutions include:

El Museo del Barrio

Founded in 1969 with Puerto Rican roots, El Museo del Barrio has evolved into New York's leading Latino cultural institution, representing the diversity of art and culture for all of the Caribbean and Latin America, New exhibits include Belkis Ayón:NKAME, a landmark retrospective of the work of this Cuban artist who mined the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban fraternal society Abakuá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography. El Museo del Barrio and The Wallach Art Gallery also present UPTOWN: nasty women/bad hombres, featuring the work of artists engaging with the legacies of sexism, racism, homophobia, the power of the media, and violence in various ways.

Museum of the City of New York

MCNY hosts a vast display of photographs, costumes, prints, dolls, and more as part of its permanent collection. It embraces the past, present, and future of NYC and celebrates the city's cultural diversity. Brand new this year is the permanent exhibit, New York At Its Core. Also, opening the next day, June 14, is Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York, exploring how immigrant and migrant communities in New York City developed salsa into a global phenomenon.

The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum is one of the world's largest and most important institutions devoted to exploring the scope and diversity of Jewish culture. Exhibitions employ a combination of art and artifacts. New this year is Florine Stettheimer:Painting Poetry, the first major U.S. exhibition in over 20 years focused on this influential American painter, showcases over 50 paintings and drawings in addition to costume and theater designs, photographs, and ephemera.

Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

When the restored, renovated, and renamed Cooper-Hewitt reopened in December of 2014, the former Carnegie Mansion took on 60% more gallery space, a revamped graphic identity, and 21st-century technology ready to enhance the visitor experience in mind-bendingly innovative ways. New at Cooper-Hewitt is The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, the first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste during the creative explosion of the 1920s, featuring interior and industrial design, decorative art, jewelry, fashion, architecture, music, and film.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met opened on Fifth Avenue and 82nd street in 1880, housing works that ranged from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period. By the 1900s, the museum had expanded considerably, acquiring work by some of the twentieth century's greatest artists. Today the Met's departments include The American Wing, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Arms and Armor, Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Asian Art, The Costume Institute, Drawings and Prints, Egyptian Art, European Paintings, European Scultpure and Decorative Arts, Greek and Roman Art, Islamic Art, The Robert Lehman Collection, Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Modern and Contemporary Art, Musical Instruments, and Photographs. New at the Met, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In­Between examines the designer’s revolutionary experiments in interstitiality through approximately 120 examples of womenswear from 1981 to the present.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece of modern architecture. Completed in 1959 (after 16 years of construction), the Guggenheim is home to one of the world's finest collections of modern and contemporary art, including works by artists such as Kandinsky, Picasso, and Pollock, plus intriguing special exhibitions. Now at the Guggenheim is Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, that explores the collections of six early patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day, including Picasso, Kandinsky, Pollock, Mondrian, and Brancusi.

Neue Galerie New York

Neue Galerie is devoted to early-20th-century German and Austrian art and design. Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the museum’s founding, with highlights from the museum’s extensive collection including major paintings and drawings by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, and Egon Schiele.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Each year, thousands of tourists from around the world make their trip to the Museum Mile Festival. Because of the success of the festival and the work of the consortium, the City of New York officially designated Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th Streets as “Museum Mile,”­ further cementing the area as one of the city’s major cultural resources.

The 2017 Museum Mile Festival will feature live music, magicians, face painting, chalk drawing, balloons, and more! For maps or more information, visit museummilefestival.org.

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