The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
EXHIBITIONS OVERVIEW
Since 1997, the museum has presented exhibitions in temporary spaces-- including two vacant banking halls on Wall Street in the heart of New York's historic financial district. The inaugural show DOWNTOWN NEW YORK ran from April through December 1997 at 44 Wall Street.
The museum's second and third exhibits were mounted in the Art Deco banking hall at 16 Wall Street. BUILDING THE EMPIRE STATE ran from October 1998 through September 1999 and BIG BUILDINGS ran from October through December 1999. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT: TIMES SQUARE, presenting architectural models for six new Times Square towers, showed throughout 2000 and 2001 in a space at 110 Maiden Lane.
WTC: MONUMENT ran from February 5th through May 5th, 2002 at The New-York Historical Society. This tribute to the Twin Towers examined the history of the complex in its conception, design, and construction from the 1960s through the mid-1970s -- and its destruction on the morning of 9/11.
On September 10, 2002, the first section of the VIEWING WALL AT GROUND ZERO was inaugurated by Governor George Pataki and other dignitaries at ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of 9/11. The Skyscraper Museum collaborated with the Port Authority, the design firm Pentagram, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) to provide the history panels for the Viewing Wall.
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