Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum

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2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128Seasons 1, 2

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum - Gossip Girl filming location NYC

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The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's intimate garden was the beautiful filming location for the wedding of Lily van der Woodsen and Bart Bass — one of the most significant social events in the Gossip Girl universe. This Carnegie Mansion garden, tucked behind wrought-iron railings on East 91st Street, provided the perfect blend of old-money elegance and romantic intimacy. The garden is sometimes open to the public for free, and you can peek through the railings to see where Lily and Bart exchanged their vows. The museum itself, housed in the former Andrew Carnegie Mansion, is worth a visit for its design exhibitions and stunning Beaux-Arts architecture.

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Lily van der Woodsen and Bart Bass's wedding ceremony in the garden (S1), establishing shots of the Upper East Side's Museum Mile, and scenes conveying the refined cultural world of Manhattan's elite.

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