Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the city of New York, in the United States, running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side in a neighborhood known as Carnegie Hill.
The Mile, which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world, is actually two blocks longer than one mile. Nine museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue. (Metropolitan Museum of art, Guggenheim Museum, Frick Collection and so on) witch line the Avenue (the Whitney Museum, a block to the east, is also close by).
But this part of Upper East Side is a museum in itself, dedicate to the mansions built at the beginning of the Century.
A tenth museum, the Museum for African Art, joined the ensemble in 2009, however its Museum at 110th Street, the first new museum constructed on the Mile since the Guggenheim in 1959, won't open until late 2012. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation.
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