Museum of Modern Art facts for kids

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Museum of Modern Art

Established	November 7, 1929; 93 years ago (1929-11-07)
Location	11 West 53rd Street Manhattan, New York City
Type	Art museum
Visitors	706,060 (2020)
Public transit access	Subway: Fifth Avenue/53rd Street (​ train) Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M7, M10, M20, M50, M104

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, 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 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.

It attracted 706,060 visitors in 2020, a drop of sixty-five percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ranked twenty-fifth on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2020.

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  The entrance to The Museum of Modern Art

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  Stairs in the Museum of Modern Art

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  Cross-section of the Museum of Modern Art

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  Basement gift shop

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  Claude Monet, Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c.1920

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  Paul Cézanne, The Bather, 1885–1887

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  Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

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  Vincent van Gogh, The Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background, 1889

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  Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

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  Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909

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  Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910

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  Henri Matisse, L'Atelier Rouge, 1911

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  Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911

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  Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913

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  Henri Matisse, View of Notre-Dame, 1914

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  Giorgio de Chirico, Love Song, 1914

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  Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918

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  Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–1943