Join Cooper Hewitt and our Museum Mile neighbors for the 44th annual Museum Mile Festival.

This year’s festival marks the return of an in-person festival, following two years of virtual events during the pandemic. Established in 1978 to increase public awareness of its member institutions and promote public support of the arts, the Museum Mile Festival serves as a model for similar events across the globe.

The eight cultural partners participating in this long-standing collaboration are: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Neue Galerie New York; Solomon R. 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 doors to each museum will be open to the public for free throughout the event.  Please check each museum’s website to learn more about their programming.

What’s on at Cooper Hewitt

Exhibitions On View

• Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.
• Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics examines design’s role in times of crisis.
• Duro Olowu Selects highlights the theme of pattern and repetition throughout the collection.
• Foreign Exchange traces the movement of people, ideas, and objects across borders.
• Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum chronicles the colorful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters who founded the museum in 1897.
• Discover the work of Sophia Crownfield, who designed prints for textile and wallpaper manufacturers from the 1890s through the 1920s.
• Nature By Design: Selections From The Permanent Collection explores how nature and design have intersected in the past and continue to converge in our world.

Design ActivitY

Take on a mystery design challenge and propose a solution on our brainstorming community canvas. Pass on the design fun and leave a creative design provocation for the next creative.

Activity ongoing 6-8 p.m.

Outdoors (weather permitting)

GARDEN AND CAFE

The Tarallucci e Vino cafe will be open with tables for dining in the garden.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Entry: All visitors must enter at 2 East 91st Street.

Exit: All visitors will exit the museum via the Garden gate on 90th Street.

Visitor Guide: Explore Cooper Hewitt using our virtual visitor guide complete with information on current exhibitions and suggested routes through the galleries. Download the guide ahead of your visit or access it on site with our free WiFi.

HEALTH & SAFETY MEASURES

Capacity Restrictions

Admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

IF SICK, STAY HOME

We are asking all visitors who are sick or feel unwell to please stay home.

Please wash and sanitize hands frequently during your visit and practice good hygiene. Hand-sanitizing stations will be available throughout our facility.

MASKS REQUIRED

All visitors age 2+ are required to wear a mask while inside the Museum, SHOP, and cafe.

SOCIAL DISTANCING

We encourage visitors to maintain a safe social distance of six feet or more between households and groups when possible.

PROOF OF VACCINATION

Visitors are not required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter the museum, SHOP or cafe.

PERSONAL BELONGINGS

We encourage you to limit the number of personal belongings and bags you bring into our facilities as they will be subject to a thorough search. Please note that we do not offer coat or bag storage at this time.

Special CLOSURES

Interactive technologies—including the Immersion Room and  touch screens—will not be available.

The Bridge Gallery will be closed for indoor dining.