26-year-old New Yorker gathers 40,000 TikTok followers in her quest to visit all the city's museums

26-year-old New Yorker gathers 40,000 TikTok followers in her quest to visit all the city's museums

Museums throughout New York City were just reopening in the wake of the COVID pandemic when Jane August launched what seemed like a straightforward plan: She would travel to every single museum in the city, producing a short video log of each one. She figured it would take three years at most. But with 136 museums documented since 2021, she still has about 64 to go by her estimation. And with new museums opening and some old ones changing so dra…