Poster House facts for kids
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| Established | 2015 |
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| Location | 119 West 23rd Street New York, New York 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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Poster House is a special place in New York City! It's the very first museum in the United States that is all about posters. You can find it in the Chelsea neighborhood, on 23rd Street. The museum first opened its doors on June 20, 2019.
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Discovering Poster House's Story
Poster House was officially started in 2015. It then opened its doors to visitors on June 20, 2019. The museum's cool logo was designed by Paula Scher. She is a famous designer from a company called Pentagram. The building where the museum is now used to be a repair shop for Apple products. It was completely redesigned by LTL Architects and Lumen Architecture to become the museum you see today.
What You'll Find: The Poster Collection
When Poster House first opened in 2019, it had about 7,000 posters. These posters came from 100 different countries around the world! This huge collection included 3,000 posters related to the 2017 Women's March. It also had 98 special posters from the "Subway Series." These "Subway Series" posters were given to the museum by the School of Visual Arts. They include amazing works by artists like Milton Glaser, Louise Fili, and Paula Scher.
The museum's collection has posters from the late 1800s all the way up to today. The newest posters are kept in a "living archive." This means Poster House regularly adds new and modern posters to it. The museum uses both its old and new collections to create exciting exhibitions. These shows often focus on a specific artist, a design style, or a particular theme.
Amazing Exhibitions to Explore
Poster House's very first exhibition opened in June 2019. It showed more than 80 posters by a Czech graphic designer named Alphonse Mucha. In February 2020, an exhibition called The Swiss Grid explored the important Swiss design and lettering styles.
In April 2021, Poster House featured the work of Julius Klinger. Later that year, in September 2021, the museum opened You Can't Bleed Me. This show displayed posters and marketing materials from famous films like Slaughter and Coffy. In the same month, another exhibition opened with over 200 posters. These posters were from a design and illustration company in New York 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 started in March 2023. This exhibition explored the history, art, and symbols of the Black Panther Party. Also in March 2023, Made in Japan opened. It focused on Japanese poster art from World War II and the time after the war. Other exhibitions in 2023 included Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. This show had 53 pieces looking at how Art Deco was used in advertisements. Another show was We Tried To Warn You!, which featured posters and ads about the environmental movement from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Special Projects and Community Work
In April 2020, Poster House worked with Print magazine on a public safety campaign. It was called #CombatCOVID. For this project, graphic designers like Jessica Hische, Maira Kalman, and Edel Rodriguez created posters. These posters shared public safety tips and encouraging messages with people in New York City. About 1,700 digital advertising screens across the city displayed these posters.
Poster House also teamed up with food writer and historian Grace Young. Together, they created Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories. This was a video series where Grace Young showed the challenges small businesses in Manhattan's Chinatown faced during the pandemic. Grace Young received the 2022 Julia Child Award partly because of her work on this series. Julia Knight from Poster House presented her with the award.
