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Street by Street:
Museum Mile

Many of New York’s museums are clustered
on the Upper East Side, in homes ranging
from the former Frick and Carnegie mansions
to the modernistic Guggenheim, designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright. The displays are as varied
as the architecture, running the gamut from 2 Jewish Museum
Old Masters to photographs to decorative The most extensive collection of Judaica in
arts. Presiding over the scene is the vast the world is housed here. It includes coins,
archaeological objects, and ceremonial and
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’s religious artifacts.
answer to Paris’s Louvre. Some of the museums
stay open late one day a week.

3.Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian
Design Museum
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and textiles are well 9 3 R D S T
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Graham House is an
apartment building
with a splendid Beaux
Arts entrance. It was
built in 1892.

5. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s building, which
is in the form of a spiral, is floodlit at dusk. To
see one of the world’s premier collections of
modern and contemporary art, take the
elevator to the top and walk down.

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