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Museum Mile Festival 2009
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Museum Mile Festival 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
One day a year, for the past 31 years, nine of the country’s finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually.
This year’s 31st annual festival kicks off at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with an opening ceremony, at 5:45pm, on the steps of its landmark building on Fifth Avenue @ 89th Street.
Events and Performance
Enjoy New York’s biggest block party with 23 traffic-free blocks, live bands, entertainment, activities for kids and FREE admission to all the museums on New York’s famous Museum Mile.
105th Street
El Museo del Barrio
Mural making and family art workshops
Pablo Mayor and Folklore Urbano
Brazilian artists Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg set up a live video Skype between El Barrio and the Rio de Janeiro favela of Dona Marta/Botafogo Elia Alba: Self-Portrait Mask Art Project with Children Street Games and more!
103rd Street
Museum of the City of New York
New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
Chalk Drawing Designs
The New York Academy of Medicine
93rd Street
Sammie & Tudie’s Imaginary Playhouse
92nd Street
The Jewish Museum
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
91st Street
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Chalk Drawing Designs
Carnegie Hill Neighbors
90th Street
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
Hayes Greenfield Jazz Duo
Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown
Live model drawing class for children ages 8 to 12
Church of the Heavenly Rest
89th Street
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Opening Ceremony, beginning at 5:45 pm
Chalk Drawing
IRUBNY
Tin Pan
88th Street
Daisy Doodle¹s Parties, Magic, Face painting & Balloons!
87th Street
Josh The Juggler
86th Street
Neue Galerie New York
Random Richards Ramble
Fredo the Magician
85th Street
Magic by Alexander
84th Street
Czech Center NY
83rd Street
Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center
Juggler Fred
Chalk Drawing Designs
82nd Street
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Juggler Dave Lowe
Directions
Bus:
M1, M3, M4 northbound on Madison Avenue or southbound on Fifth Avenue
M86 on 86th Street, M96 on 96th Street
Subway:
#4 or 5 Lexington Avenue Line 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. 
C, 1, train to 86th or 96th street, then M86 or M96 crosstown bus across Central Park to Fifth Avenue. 
