Located in Midtown Manhattan on 53rd street and the Fifth Ave., the Museum of Modern Art is one of the most influential and important modern art museums in the world. It is dedicated to collect modernist art and works towards its development and diffusion.
The museum opened to the public in 1929 as the result of an idea of Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller and other ladies who were interested in this kind of art, and included works by Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cezanne, among others.
Along the years, the Museum of Modern Art has held several innovative exhibitions and cultural activities that approached New Yorkers to the most revolutionary art expressions of each era.
Nowadays its incredibly rich collection includes modern works of painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, books, photography, films, electronic media, architecture and all kind of designs. Therefore visitors could discover a Rodin sculpture, a neon mobile phone or a short film all by just visiting the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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