Museum Mile Festival Returns In 2021 After A Virtual Year

Upper East Side NY

27 May, 2021

4:06 PM

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UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — After being forced to go virtual last year, the Museum Mile Festival will return next month with a mixture of in-person and virtual programming, organizers announced Wednesday. As it has in years past, the annual event will have eight institutions participating: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, the Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian Design Museum, The Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio and The Africa Center. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on June 8, consisting of live and pre-recorded virtual programs, virtual exhibition tours, live musical performances and some in-person outdoor events. Past years' events have included a street fair that blocks off Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 110th streets, as well as free admission to a handful of museums. It does not appear that those components are included in this year's event. In-person highlights include an outdoor performance by the Afro-Caribbean group San Simón at the Harlem Meer in Central Park at 6 p.m., sponsored by El Museo del Barrio. Virtual programs, meanwhile, include virtual silent exhibition tours of the Temple of Dendur and the new roof garden sculpture at the Met, or the livestreamed series "Curators from the Couch" at the Museum of the City of New York. "The Museum Mile Festival has attracted joyful crowds of New Yorkers for more than 40 years," city cultural affairs commissioner Gonzalo Casals said in a news release. "This year, as our city recovers, Museum Mile will offer opportunities both to engage with live programming, and for people far and wide to participate online. Read the full list of programming here