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An Apollonaut travel guide
A street of theatres.
An introduction to West 45th Street, where the Museum of Broadway stands beside the Lyceum Theatre, just east of Times Square.
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Read the street
The museum is at 145 West 45th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, in the heart of the Theater District.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how marquees, stage doors and older theatre fronts sit between office towers.
Stone, columns and a curving marquee
Next door, the Lyceum Theatre’s Beaux-Arts front by Herts and Tallant has banded columns, arched windows and a mansard roof with round windows.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made, repaired and kept. A photograph alone cannot tell you who carved the stone or hung the lights, or the conditions in which they worked.
A 45th Street chapter
The street shows two ways of keeping Broadway’s story: a theatre that has staged plays since 1903, and a museum that opened beside it in 2022.
Look at the meeting of the two as you arrive.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places, commissions their restoration or represents their makers.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
