The Skyscraper Museum

About the Museum

Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. Through exhibitions, programs, and publications, 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.

The Skyscraper Museum is located in lower Manhattan's Battery Park City at 39 Battery Place. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12 to 6 PM.

Admission is FREE.

All visitors, except Museum Members, should book timed-tickets. Walk-ins are welcome on a limited basis. For reservation information, click VISIT.

Free Admission has been extended thanks to the generous support of DeSimone Consulting Engineers, Feil Family Foundation, Foster + Partners, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Sciame, Thornton Tomasetti, and Turner Construction.

Visit SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM FROM HOME for videos of programs, virtual exhibitions, school lesson plans, and more.

Upcoming Programs

Curator’s Tour of The Modern Concrete Skyscraper

Wed, Jul 2 at 3:00 PM

Wall Street Walking Tour

Mon, Jul 7 at 3:00 PM

Andrea Beaty’s Iggy Peck, Architect

Sat, Jul 19 at 10:30 AM

Current Exhibition

THE MODERN CONCRETE SKYSCRAPER

Concrete – liquid stone – is both unique and ubiquitous. It is the substance most used by humans after water. It has many desirable qualities – strength, fire-resistance, and malleability – but also has a high “carbon cost” of embodied energy. Today, almost all skyscrapers are built of concrete. That story has had no clear narrative: finding that thread is the subject of this exhibition.

Previous Exhibition

TALL TIMBER

Man-made climate change threatens our cities and our collective future. Wood, one of humanity’s oldest construction materials, offers a path to a more sustainable built environment. Mass Timber is being used in ways that avoids the “carbon cost” of traditional high-rise construction in concrete and steel.