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How the story begins
Marcel Duchamp told the art world he had stopped making art to play chess. It was not true. What he was doing instead is behind an old Spanish door in this museum. The door stands in an arch of thin red bricks. It has two nearly invisible peepholes. He abandoned his great glass work in 1923, and chess became his public story. Then, from 1946 to 1966, in a studio in Greenwich Village, he worked in secret on what lies behind that door.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Open Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm, Friday 10 am to 8:45 pm; closed Tuesday and Wednesday (museum site, read November 2026). Check admission and ask whether the Duchamp galleries are open before you go.
