MoMA

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world.

Henri Matisse, Dance (first version), 1909 Oil on canvas, 8' 6 1/2" x 12' 9 1/2" (259.7 x 390.1 cm) Gift of Nelson A Rockefeller
in honor of Alfred H Barr, Jr © 2002 Succession H Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will open in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004–05 to coincide with its seventy-fifth anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot Museum will be nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research. ... MoMA QNS, The Museum of Modern Art in Queens, is open with a full exhibition schedule while the Museum's building on West Fifty-third Street in Manhattan is closed for renovation and rebuilding. The new Museum of Modern Art will open in early 2005.