MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, History

Hi, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art.

MoMA is one of the most important modern and contemporary art museums in the world, a temple to the arts that is home not only to paintings and sculptures, but also works of photography, cinema, design and much more, as you’ll soon discover.

The first location of the museum, in 1929, was the modest twelfth floor of a nearby building. After such humble beginnings and the continual moves along 53rd Street, the museum eventually took up permanent residence in its current home, one of the lowest buildings in the surrounding area. Low, yet definitely not lowly in artistic terms....