Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art
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Museum of Modern Art is located in Manhattan Museum of Modern Art
Location of MoMA in Manhattan
Established
November 7, 1929; 85 years ago
Location
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
Coordinates
40.761484N 73.977664W
Visitors
3.1 million (2013)[1]
Ranked 13th globally (2013)[1]
Director
Glenn D. Lowry
Public transit access Subway: Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street (E M trains)
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M7, M10, M20, M50, and M104
Website www.moma.org
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 impo
rtant in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the
most influential museum of modern art in the world.[2] The museum's collection
offers an overview of modern and contemporary art,[3] including works of archite
cture 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 catalo
gs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about indivi
dual artists and groups.[4] The archives holds primary source material related t
o the history of modern and contemporary art.[5]
MoMA also houses a restaurant, the Modern, run by Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreut
her.