The Skyscraper Museum celebrates NYC’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.

Our Battery Park City gallery was designed by the distinguished architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) with award-winning partner Roger Duffy as lead designer. Described as a “vertical Versailles,” the space features reflective stainless-steel floors and ceilings of mirrors that exude verticality and create a dazzling effect. On view are two permanent exhibitions, one devoted to the History of Height and another the history of World Trade Center, as well as a temporary exhibition TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood.

Friday Tour: 3pm
Join us for a free tour of TALL TIMBER led by the Museum’s Head of Programs. Explore the short but promising history of a new engineered type of wood called Mass Timber, which is being used to construct skyscrapers all over the world that avoid the carbon-costs of steel and concrete. Tours are limited to 25 people; first-come-first-served.

The Museum is fully accessible via ramps. Guests will be asked to provide last name and state or country of residence at the admissions desk upon arrival.