The Mid-Manhattan Museum of Asian Art is a museum located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. It is in Mid-Manhattan, an area with the world's largest central business district. The museum appears in the Saturday Morning Adventures comic Shreddercon!.
At his home, artisan Eddiku Kai meets with Oroku Saki. Saki explains that he knows Kai's ancestor, Eddiku Yuri, created a powerful sword from the ore of a meteorite. Saki explains that he has the other half of the meteorite and he wants Kai to use its ore to forge a new sword - a full replica of the original. Kai is very interested, but says that the job is impossible. Though making the blade would be easy, the thing that made his ancestor's swords unique were the Tsuba, the hand guard. These Yuri crafted in ways that he did not pass down in his family. Some say he used magic. Kai adds that a motivated collector might find some of Yuri's unused Tsuba at the Mid-Manhattan Museum of Asian Art. With one of those, and a reasonable fee, Kai says he might be of some assistance.
Shredder decides to use the annual St. Nick-Con as the distraction he needs in order to steal the Tsuba from the museum. However, city officials have banned the usual Santa Claus costumes revelers wear, so Shredder hands out duplicates of his outfit. While the Turtles and police are dealing with the throngs of Shredder look-a-likes, Bebop and Rocksteady subdue the museum guards, hang up a sign that closes the museum for maintenance, and break all the security cameras. They also vandalize exhibits with spray paint in order to make it appear that the break-in was perpetrated by Con revelers. Shredder then steals the Tsuba, replacing it with a replica so that curator won't know the original is missing.