Pizza museum really delivers

Tasteful show at NYC pop-up gallery

NEW YORK — There is now a museum for pizza lovers everywhere that’s popped-up in arguably America’s pizza capital, New York City.

The Museum of Pizza is dedicated to all things cheese and sauce, but there’s more to it than meets the tongue.

“It’s often that the simplest ideas are the best. And we wanted to use pizza’s ubiquitous appeal to get people through the door and looking at art and hearing about history in a different format,” said Alexandra Serio, chief content officer at Nameless Network, the group that baked the Museum of Pizza idea.

“Our approach to this Museum of Pizza is a fine art approach, so we went out to multiple artists contemporary in many mediums, and asked them for their interpretation of pizza,” Serio said. “And what we got back is, it ranges the gamut, let’s just say that. That’s an understatement.”

Located on the street level of Brooklyn’s William Vale hotel, the museum is an expansive, one-floor space that houses a wide variety of art, from giant photographs to sculptures to large installations that engulf visitors. And the pop-up museum, also known as “MoPi,” has already drawn a lot of interest — more than 6,000 peo- ple came through the doors when they opened this month.

Another instantly recognizable attribute of the space is the bright colors that are weaved throughout the exhibits — perfect for taking social media-ready pictures.

The pop-up museum, which costs $35 for adults but is free for kids under 5 and seniors, closes Nov. 18.

AP PHOTOS NO ANCHOVIES: Among the pizza-themed works of art on the menu at the Museum of Pizza in New York are: ‘Pizza Guitar,’ above, by musician Andrew W.K.; textile sculpture ‘Mystic Pizza,’ below left, by Hein Koh; and a pizza box playroom, ‘Gazoo,’ below right, created with neon lights and fluorescent tape.