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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