Museum Of The City Of NY To Reopen After Monthlong Closure

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The Museum of the City of New York will reopen to visitors this week, more than a month after it closed for repairs following a "plumbing malfunction," the institution announced Tuesday.

"The Museum of the City of New York is excited to announce that repairs have been completed and we will reopen to the public on Friday, February 26," the museum said in an email.

The history-focused museum, on Fifth Avenue between East 103rd and 104th streets, announced on Jan. 5 that it would close for about a month due to the unspecified malfunction. No art or artifacts were damaged, the museum director said.

Exhibitions now on view at the museum include City/Game: Basketball in New York, The Stettheimer Dollhouse: Up Close, and New York at Its Core, an exhibition on 400 years of the city's history focused on money, density, diversity and creativity.

The Museum of the City of New York reopened in late August after the pandemic shut down all of the city's museums for five months.