Eight museums and several neighborhood partners are coming together for the 47th annual Museum Mile Festival. Photo by Scott Rudd

Block parties are arguably among the most exhilarating rites of summer in New York, channeling the city’s irrepressible energy as it bursts into its most vibrant and expressive season. Picture impromptu DJ sets spinning under bridges or on sidewalks, dancers spilling into the street, strangers striking up conversations and food and merch pop-ups from scrappy startups and indie labels—each a vivid, unfiltered snapshot of New York’s raw creative pulse. On June 10, one of New York’s biggest block parties, the Museum Mile Festival, returns for its 47th edition, with eight museums and numerous neighborhood partners joining forces to celebrate the city’s extraordinary cultural diversity and the sheer density of museums that line the walkable stretch of Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 110th.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, the Guggenheim, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio and the Africa Center will be admission-free starting at 6 p.m. and stay open until 9 p.m. Rain or shine, the festival will also have live programming, musical performances, exhibitions, art-making for all ages and more.

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“The Museum Mile Festival has long been a testament to the enduring power of the arts to bring people together across neighborhoods and generations,” Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, director and........

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