A crowd favorite during OHNY Weekend and a featured site in Gothamist’s “10 of the coolest places open to the public for this year’s Open House New York,” Noble Signs is opening their doors for a special evening tour just for Metropolitan members.
Established in 2013, Noble Signs is a Brooklyn-based studio dedicated to the art of hand-painted and craft signage in the New York area, specifically focusing on the vernacular lettering styles that lend our city its unique visual identity. Out of that mission, the New York Sign Museum was born.
Serving as a resource for community members, historians, and designers alike, the museum is a registered nonprofit organization with the mission of preserving historic signage from around the New York metropolitan area. Currently incubating in Noble Signs’s fabrication and design studios, the museum collection includes over 40 full-scale rescued storefront signs and dozens of other small pieces and ephemera.
See the collection and active sign shop where signs are still made the old-fashioned way, situated in an amazing one-of-a-kind prewar factory space with original details including glass block walls, art deco tin ceilings, stained glass dividers, and a functioning dumbwaiter.