Why visit
The Museum of Modern Art occupies a Midtown campus on West 53rd Street devoted to modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1929, it built an interdisciplinary collection that places painting and sculpture beside architecture, industrial design, photography, drawings, prints, film, performance and time-based media.
What to see
Collection galleries move broadly through chronological periods while making cross-medium connections. Works by artists such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Kahlo, Pollock and Warhol appear within changing installations rather than a permanently fixed highlights route, and temporary exhibitions repeatedly reorganize the museum's arguments.
Plan your visit
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden creates an outdoor interior at the center of the complex, framed by successive generations of museum architecture. Film theaters, archives, conservation studios and education spaces extend MoMA beyond gallery display, revealing an institution that collects reproducible design and moving images as seriously as singular painted objects.
