Museum Mile - Definition and Overview

Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue, an avenue in Manhattan in the City of New York, running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side in a neighborhood known as Carnegie Hill.

New York City officially designated this segment as Museum Mile because it is the location of nine museums, several of which are world-renowned.

The nine museums and their locations are:

• 104th St. El Museo del Barrio
  (212) 831-7272
  http://www.elmuseo.org

• 103rd St. Museum of the City of New York
  (212) 534-1672
  http://www.mcny.org

• 92nd St. The Jewish Museum
  (212) 423-3200
  http://www.thejewishmuseum.org

• 91st St. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  (212) 849-8400
  http://www.si.edu/ndm

• 89th St. National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
  (212) 369-4880
  http://www.nationalacademy.org

• 88th St. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  (212) 423-3500
  http://www.guggenheim.org

• 86th St. Neue Galerie New York
  (212) 628-6200
  http://www.neuegalerie.org/enter.html

• 83rd St. Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center
  (212) 439-8700
  http://www.goethe.de/newyork

• 82nd St. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  (212) 535-7710
  http://www.metmuseum.org

Other museums in the area include:

• 75th St. and Madison Ave. Whitney Museum of American Art

• 70th St. Frick Collection