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Museum of Street Art

Worth a detourBowery, Manhattan

Take the elevator to the 20th floor of a hotel and walk down 20 flights; the stairwell is the museum. Really cool.

What it is

Filling up a 21-floor staircase inside the citizenM hotel, 20 graffiti artists from the art collective 5Pointz were each invited to paint one floor with a specific theme related to the Bowery and Lower East Side.

Pair it with

Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.

  1. 1Museum at Eldridge St0.2 mi · Free

    European-style 1800s synagogue in NYC, who knew.

  2. 2Museum of Chinese in America0.3 mi · Free

    Solid permanent exhibit on Chinese immigration to America.

  3. 3Drawing Center0.5 mi · Free

    Large collection of drawings, all modern.

  4. 4Grey Art Museum0.5 mi · Free

    Fantastic and shockingly large modern art collection for a museum no one’s heard of.

  5. 5Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation0.6 mi · $15

    Massive collection of Chaim Gross sculptures plus his collection of art from well-known artists.

  6. 6International Center of Photography0.6 mi · $18

    Massive space, tons of interesting photos.

Also on the block, if you have time

New Museum (0.1 mi), Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue & Museum (0.2 mi, free), Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation (0.2 mi, free), Judd Foundation (0.3 mi), Camera Club of NY (0.3 mi, free).

Skip Tenement Museum (0.2 mi), even if you’re passing: “Historic-house museum on steroids.”