{"id":326135,"date":"2026-08-20T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:12:10","slug":"one-of-nycs-most-beautiful-museums-will-reopen-in-october-with-a-special-25th-anniversary-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326135\/","title":{"rendered":"One of NYC\u2019s most beautiful museums will reopen in October, with a special 25th anniversary exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of New York’s most beautiful museums<\/a> is getting ready to welcome visitors back\u2014and just in time for a pretty major birthday.<\/p>\n

Neue Galerie New York<\/a> will reopen its landmark Fifth Avenue home on October 1 after spending the summer closed for building upgrades. The museum has been making enhancements to the historic Upper East Side mansion designed to improve sustainability and the visitor experience.<\/p>\n

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Photograph: Courtesy Neue Galerie New YorkCaf\u00e9 Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie New York<\/p>\n

There is one important catch: While the building will reopen in October, you’ll have to wait a little longer to reunite with Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Caf\u00e9 Sabarsky<\/a>, the museum’s Viennese caf\u00e9, along with its bookstore and design shop, will resume regular hours on October 1. The galleries themselves will reopen on November 12 with the debut of a special anniversary exhibition marking a quarter-century since Neue Galerie first opened its doors in 2001.<\/p>\n

The exhibit will bring back some of the museum’s best-known works, including art by Klimt and Schiele. Neue Galerie’s collection is dedicated to Austrian and German art created between 1890 and 1940, with holdings spanning painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and decorative arts. Beyond Klimt and Schiele, the collection includes works by Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and members of the Bauhaus.<\/p>\n

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Photograph: Courtesy Neue Galerie New YorkNeue Galerie New York<\/p>\n

And, frankly, the museum’s home is nearly as much of a draw as the masterpieces hanging inside it. Neue Galerie sits in one of Fifth Avenue’s few surviving Gilded Age mansions, a limestone beauty at Fifth Avenue and East 86th Street, completed in 1914. Designed by Carr\u00e8re & Hastings (the firm behind the New York Public Library’s main branch), the mansion was modeled in part on Paris’s Place des Vosges.<\/p>\n

Industrialist William Starr Miller originally commissioned the home, which was later occupied by society fixture Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III and then the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Ronald S. Lauder and art dealer Serge Sabarsky purchased it in 1994, eventually turning it into Neue Galerie. Architect Annabelle Selldorf oversaw the restoration and conversion of the landmark into a museum.<\/p>\n

This fall, you can once again spend an afternoon pretending you’ve slipped into fin-de-si\u00e8cle Vienna, complete with Klimts and cake. Just remember: Sachertorte returns October 1 and the art follows on November 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of New York’s most beautiful museums is getting ready to welcome visitors back\u2014and just in time for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122747,575,25526,122746,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-326135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-egon-schiele","tag-fifth-avenue","tag-gustav-klimt","tag-neue-galerie-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}