Manhattan's Museum Mile Festival

The 30th annual Museum Mile Festival along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in New York will take place on June 3, 2008 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Manhattan's Museum Mile Festival, sponsored by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Vehicular traffic on Fifth Avenue from 105 Street to 82 Street will be prohibited, turning the thoroughfare into a pedestrian mall with live music. Admission to nine museums will be free.

• El Museo del Barrio: Check out the museum's permanent collection before it closes for expansion and reinstallation.
• Museum of the City of New York: The exhibition Catholics in New York 1808-1946 traces the history and development of the Catholic faithful in the five boroughs.
• The Jewish Museum: Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 explores Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed in America through 50 important works by 32 artists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko.
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 describes the enduring influence of the 18th-century French art style as seen in the decorative arts, drawings, furniture, prints and textiles.
• National Academy Museum: The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art presents works by more than 125 emerging and established artists.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Discover the Thannhauser Collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern art.
• Neue Galerie: The museum for German and Austrian art presents Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections and Weiner Werkstätte Jewelry, a display of more than 40 works created between 1903 and 1930.
• Goethe-Institut New York: The venerable Fifth Avenue institution and its library promote German culture and language.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: See the popular exhibitions Superheroes: Fantasy and Fashion, Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru and Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Visit the recently reopened and upgraded Robert Lehman Wing.