Poster House
Poster House is the United States’ first museum dedicated entirely to posters. It’s in Chelsea, Manhattan, at 119 West 23rd Street. The museum opened to the public on June 20, 2019, and was incorporated in 2015. The Building used to be Tekserve, an Apple repair shop, and was redesigned by LTL Architects with Lumen Architecture. Paula Scher of Pentagram designed the museum’s logo.
The permanent collection holds about 7,000 posters from 100 countries, including 3,000 items related to the 2017 Women’s March and 98 Subway Series posters donated by the School of Visual Arts. The collection spans from the late 1800s to today and blends historic pieces with contemporary works in a living archive.
Poster House presents exhibitions focused on artists, movements, or themes. Its first show in 2019 featured more than 80 posters by Alphonse Mucha. Other notable exhibitions include The Swiss Grid (Feb 2020), Julius Klinger (Apr 2021), You Can’t Bleed Me (Sept 2021) with Blaxploitation posters, and a Push Pin Studios show (Sept 2021). In 2022, it hosted Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Person. In 2023, it featured Black Power to Black People (about the Black Panther Party) and Made in Japan (World War II and postwar Japanese posters), plus Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde and We Tried To Warn You! (environmental posters from the 1970s–2000s).
In 2020, Poster House partnered with Print on a public safety campaign called #CombatCOVID, placing posters on about 1,700 digital signs across New York City. It also collaborated with Grace Young on Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories, a video series about Chinatown small businesses during the pandemic. Young received the 2022 Julia Child Award for her work on the series.
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