Skyscraper Museum

[1] The museum focuses on high-rise buildings as "products of technology, objects of design, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence."

[2] Before moving to the current and permanent location in Battery Park City in 2004, the museum was a nomadic institution, holding pop-up exhibitions in four temporary donated spaces around Lower Manhattan since 1996.

The Skyscraper Museum was founded and is directed by Carol Willis, a professor of architectural history and urban studies at Columbia University.

After the September 11 attacks, the museum was forced to close temporarily as its space was commandeered as an emergency information center.

This was arranged by using polished covers of stainless steel on the floors and ceilings, giving the illusion of an infinite vertical space.