Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film and electronic media. The Library's holdings include approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.

MoMA also houses a restaurant, the Modern, run by Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther.

History

Heckscher and other buildings (1929–39)

Museum of Modern Art (disambiguation)

The Museum of Modern Art is a museum in New York City, USA.

Museum of Modern Art may also refer to:

  • Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret France
  • Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
  • Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
  • Museum of Modern Art, Kuwait, Kuwait (Mathaf Al-Fann Al-Hadeeth)
  • Museum of Modern Art in Egypt, Port Said, Egypt
  • Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Museum of Modern Art Equatorial Guinea
  • Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (now Modern Art Oxford)
  • Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
  • MOMA, Wales, Machynlleth, Wales
  • Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida", Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  • Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana)

    The Museum of Modern Art (Slovene: Moderna galerija) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is the central museum and gallery of the Slovenian art works from the 20th and 21st centuries. It was formally established by decree of the government of the People's Republic of Slovenia on 30 December 1947, and officially opened to the public on 3 January 1948. Its central building was designed by Edvard Ravnikar and was built in 1948. On 26 November 2011, it was expanded with the Metelkova Museum of Contemporary Art, situated at Metelko Street (Slovene: Metelkova ulica).

    See also

  • National Gallery of Slovenia
  • Art of Slovenia
  • External links

  • Museum of Modern Art, official website
  • Media related to Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana) at Wikimedia Commons
  • Coordinates: 46°3′11.51″N 14°29′55.68″E / 46.0531972°N 14.4988000°E / 46.0531972; 14.4988000

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