Another star of Manhattan’s Museum Mile is the MoMA Museum of Modern Art, founded in the 1920s with the help of the Rockefeller family. Some of the first additions to the collection were Edward Hopper’s “House by the Railroad” and a bronze version of Constantine Brancusi’s “Bird in Space. Now the museum has one of the world’s largest collections of twentieth-century art, which is still being added to its collection today. Thus you can see Russian avant-garde, minimalist, pop art, abstract expressionism, digital and many other styles and trends in world art.
The Queens borough is home to MoMA’s PS1 museum division, a venue for progressive experimental art that has been in operation since 1971.
It was already one of the most respected museums in the world, but a major renovation in 2019 took the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) even further. It’s been a real museum since it was founded in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lilly P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan, wealthy patrons and influencers of their time.
Located in midtown Manhattan, MoMA is a world of contemporary art with regularly changing exhibitions and an enviable permanent collection.
Highlights include Van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889), Dali’s Permanent Memory (1931)and many other paintings by artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Frida Kahlo. There is also architecture, photography, sculpture, design, film and more.
MoMA was recently listed as one of the best contemporary art museums in the world by Tiqets.
