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Poster House

Established	2015 (2015)
Location	119 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
Type	Art museum
Architect	LTL Architects
Public transit access	New York City Bus: M7, M20, M23 SBS, M55 New York City Subway: ​ at 23rd Street  train at 23rd Street ​​ train to 23rd Street or 28th Street  ​ trains to 23rd Street or 28th Street  ​ trains to 23rd Street Port Authority Trans-Hudson: HOB-33, JSQ-33 (via HOB), or JSQ-33 to 23rd Street

Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters. The museum is located in Chelsea, New York City, on 23rd Street between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. The museum opened to the public on June 20, 2019.

History

Poster House was incorporated in 2015 and opened to the public on June 20, 2019. Its logo was designed by Paula Scher of Pentagram. The museum space, which formerly housed an Apple products repair store by the name of Tekserve, was redesigned by LTL Architects and Lumen Architecture.

On June 19, 2019 SVA announced the donation of 98 of their Subway Series posters from 1996 to the present which also includes "each newly created poster." The gift includes works by Milton Glaser, Louise Fili, Paula Scher and the creator of the current SVA Subway Poster: Jonathon Rosen.

Select exhibitions

Poster House's first exhibition, in June 2019, featured more than 80 posters by the Czech graphic designer Alphonse Mucha. A February 2020 exhibition called The Swiss Grid examined influential Swiss design and typographic style.

In April 2021, Poster House held an exhibition featuring the work of Julius Klinger. In September 2021, the museum opened You Can't Bleed Me, which displayed posters and marketing materials from notable Blaxploitation films such as Slaughter and Coffy. That same month, it opened an exhibition containing over 200 posters from the New York-based design and illustration firm Push Pin Studios.

In March 2022, Poster House opened Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Person, a show featuring poster and magazine cover illustrations Reed designed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Black Power to Black People, an exhibition featuring the history, art, and branding of the Black Panther Party, began in March 2023. That month also marked the opening of Made in Japan, which focused on World War II and Post-War Era Japanese poster art. Other 2023 exhibitions included Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde, a 53-piece show examining the use of Art Deco in mid-century advertisements, and We Tried To Warn You!, which featured environmental movement posters and advertisements from the 1970s through the 2000s.