Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
It opened on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash, as America's premier museum devoted exclusively to modern art.
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Over 200,000 works span the late 19th century to now: painting, sculpture, photography, prints, film, and design. Under first director Alfred H. Barr Jr., landmark shows like 1936's "Cubism and Abstract Art" helped shape the history of modern art itself.
What to look for
- The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, redesigned by Philip Johnson in 1953
- European modernists echoing the 1929 loan show: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Seurat
- Film and electronic media in the collection, not only paintings and sculpture
On West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan; it drew over 2.8 million visitors in 2023.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.