Mmuseumm in Manhattan: A Tiny Museum in a Freight Elevator #CreativeSpaces

🗽Opened in 2013, a quintessentially New York City art experience ~ this teeny-tiny museum lives in a freight elevator at 4 Cortlandt Alley. The elevator is open Fri-Sat 11a-6p, Spring - early Winter. 🥁 Mmuseumm is a style of storytelling about the modern world - it's Object Journalism. The viewing windows are always open, and private viewing sessions are available. 👉 Scroll down to see inside this special curated gem.

See it over at 4 Cortlandt Street in Manhattan, New York City

🐌 “Mmuseumm" is the petite pet project of a trio of friends who run a film company out of an office upstairs from this alley attraction. In 2012 Alex Kalman, along with brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, learned that their landlord was turning their building's elevator shaft into art studios. They jumped at the chance to rent a tiny ground-floor space that opens directly onto the street.

🧶 Then they assembled a compact, neatly organized display of "modern day artifacts" - it is an institution for looking and thinking by What Studio? Sponsored by the late Kate Spade (and Andy and Bea Spade) of the purse empire, among the unusual objects featured in the museum have been the 👞 shoe thrown at George W. Bush at the Minister’s Palace in Baghdad, a hot water coil heater from Kaunas, Lithuania, and a plastic glove from Paradise Valley, Montana.🧤

👀 This tiny space features rotating and permanent collections, specializing in the “overlooked, dismissed, or ignored.” Museumm offers a unique opportunity to engage with familiar and exotic everyday objects from around the world. 🫧 Past exhibitions include Personal Possessions found in the Pacific, Paper Works found in Copying Machines, and Homemade Weapons of Defense.

A look inside the teeny-tiny museum

💵 Items currently on view include: Personal Possessions of Mass Migration, Everything is Relative: The Value of a Dollar, The Natural Nature of Nature, Imagined World-Leader-Used Tissues, Objects Made by Prisoners in the U.S., and more.

🎁 The collection is refreshed annually. In 2018, a small “gift shop” was added in a window a few feet down on the right of the Mmuseumm.

📱 Visitors may call an 800 number to access a free audio guide. The museum fits three people at a time.📍See it over at 4 Cortlandt Alley, Manhattan // #emotifExplores