Poster House facts for kids
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| Established | 2015 |
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| Location | 119 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Architect | LTL Architects |
| Public transit access | New York City Bus: M7, M20, M23 SBS, M55 New York City Subway:
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Imagine a whole museum just for posters! Poster House is the very first museum in the United States that's all about posters. You can find it in New York City, in a neighborhood called Chelsea, on 23rd Street. It first opened its doors on June 20, 2019.
History of Poster House
Poster House started planning in 2015 and welcomed visitors in 2019. A famous designer named Paula Scher created its cool logo. The building where the museum is now used to be a repair shop for Apple products! It was totally redesigned by LTL Architects.
Just before opening, a school called SVA gave the museum 98 special posters. These posters were part of their "Subway Series" and were made from 1996 onwards. This amazing gift included works by famous artists like Milton Glaser and Paula Scher.
Cool Exhibitions to See
Poster House has hosted many interesting shows. Their very first exhibition in June 2019 featured over 80 posters by a Czech designer named Alphonse Mucha. In February 2020, an exhibition called The Swiss Grid explored the important Swiss design and lettering.
In April 2021, the museum showed the work of Julius Klinger. Later that year, in September 2021, they opened You Can't Bleed Me. This show displayed posters from Blaxploitation films like Slaughter and Coffy. That same month, another exhibition opened with over 200 posters from a design firm called Push Pin Studios.
In March 2022, Poster House presented Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Person. This exhibition showed posters and magazine covers designed by Ethel Reed in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Black Power to Black People opened in March 2023. This exhibition explored the history and art of the Black Panther Party. Also in March 2023, Made in Japan opened, focusing on Japanese poster art from World War II and the time after. Other shows in 2023 included Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde, which looked at how Art Deco was used in old advertisements. Another show, We Tried To Warn You!, featured posters about the environmental movement from the 1970s to the 2000s.
