Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to

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s. The

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is located in

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, on 23rd Street between and Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. The museum opened to the public on June 20, 2019.

Building and Collection

Val Crosswhite organized supporters and founded Poster House in 2015 to recognize the art and social impact of posters overlooked by existing institutions.

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and Lumen Architecture transformed the former space of

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specialist business TekServe for museum-quality use, especially in creating its new centralized lighting system.

SVA Subway Series

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

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and the creator of the current SVA Subway Poster: Jonathon Rosen.

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