The Museum of Modern Art

Description

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA'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 collection includes iconic masterpieces from near all famous artists of 19th and 20th centuries, like Francis Bacon, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol etc.

The MoMA Library includes approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.

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