Museum · Battery Park City, Manhattan
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place, New York 10280
Small museum in Battery Park City devoted to tall buildings and the history of New York's skyline. One gallery with a permanent exhibition and a rotating show, plus free talks and curator tours.
Permanent exhibitions
- History of Height: a 36-foot mural timeline of the tallest buildings from the pyramids to today's supertalls
- First Skyscrapers / Steel Skeletons: construction of early New York and Chicago steel-frame towers
- World Trade Center: timeline of the original Twin Towers and the rebuilding at Ground Zero
- Skylines: how Manhattan's cluster of towers formed its skyline
- World's Tallest Models: scale models of Burj Khalifa, Taipei 101 and Shanghai World Financial Center
- Supertall Wall: survey of the world's supertall buildings
- Chesko Mini Models: hand-carved miniature models of Downtown and Midtown Manhattan
