It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Happy Friday, I'm Bridget Bergen Senior reporter in the

WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian Laird today.

What's the last New York City Museum you visited? My next guess might have trouble keeping

tracks and she's on a mission to see all of them and it turns out there are 170 in total. Her name is Jane August and she's made it to 100 so far. This is a

pandemic era project called Every Museum in NYC that's kept going on and it's gone viral on Tik-Toc. You might have seen

her piece nine of her favorites in Gothamist over the holidays. I want to

welcome Jane to the show. welcome to WNYC.

Hi!

And Jane, tell me, what's your latest count of museums visited so far?

I know it's over 100 hundred I think it was about

a hundred and six when you wrote the piece for Gothamist. Yeah it's still

106. We're going to 107 tomorrow. Ooh and where are you going? The Salvador Monday Museum of Arts in

Brooklyn. That's and where is that? It's like Park Slope, I believe.

Okay.

How did you determine that there are 170 museums altogether?

Is there a directory somewhere?

I made a very massive spreadsheet when I started this project and I searched all edges of the internet,

books that I found in thrift stores to try to compile the most comprehensive list of all the museums in the city.

Since that piece came out, I've been contacted that there's five or so more, so I think the spreadsheets

up to about 180 now.

Oh, wow.

Where did you start?

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