Unlike the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, it has a collection of international contemporary design since the 1950s. In fact, that’s when the museum was founded at the initiative of Eileen Osborne Webb, daughter of the collector and philanthropist. All MAD exhibition projects are inspired by innovative ideas from around the world. Particular attention is paid to education – they conduct seminars, theoretical and practical classes for students and adult audiences, as well as families.
In the tradition of all dynamic institutions with expanding collections, the museum changed names and locations until it finally moved into a building designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture almost ten years ago.
