The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The museum’s collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, film, and electronic media.
MoMA’s library and archives hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It also houses an award-winning fine dining restaurant, The Modern, run by Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther.
Opening Hours
Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Tuesday closed The Museum will be open to the public on Tuesday, April 7 and Tuesday April 14, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day closed Christmas Day closed
Price
Consult website for entry fees
Wheelchair Access
Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Tuesday closed The Museum will be open to the public on Tuesday, April 7 and Tuesday April 14, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day closed Christmas Day closed
Price
Consult website for entry fees
Wheelchair Access
Yes
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront is a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure solutions to make New York City more resilient in response to rising water levels and to protect endangered eco-systems.
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Featuring approximately 100 works, this exhibition explores Picasso’s creative process through the medium of printmaking, tracing his development from the early years of the 20th century, with depictions of itinerant circus performers in the Blue and Rose periods, to his discovery of Cubism.
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book.
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
The exhibition includes approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints primarily from the years of 1913-17 in order to consider in full the meaning of Matisse’s phrase the “methods of modern construction,” in the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period in the time between Henri Matisse’s return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice.
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
The Original Copy presents a critical examination of the aesthetic and theoretical intersections of photography and sculpture, taking into consideration how one medium has been implicated in the interpretation of the other.
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
This exhibition introduces the dynamic position that printmaking has played in the artistic and political fabric of South Africa, from the 1960s to today—a period that includes apartheid and post-apartheid issues.
Gallery: The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
On Line explores the radical transformation of the medium of drawing throughout the 20th century, a period when numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of drawing to a critical examination and expanded the medium’s definition in relation to gesture and form.
