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The Museum of Modern Art in New York also known by the acronym MoMA is located in the beating heart of the Big Apple. In fact, it is in Manhattan in the center of New York on 53rd Street.
This museum had and continues to have extraordinary importance for the development of modern and contemporary art. For this reason, it is considered probably the main museum of modern art in the world.
The museum’s collection offers an incomparable overview of modern and contemporary world art. Furthermore, its rooms are filled with drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, illustrations, films, and multimedia works.
In total, the MoMA archive collects 300,000 books and periodicals, as well as the personal records of more than 70,000 artists.
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The original idea of a museum of modern art was developed in 1928 by Abby Aldrich Rockefelle and two of her friends. This all-female group became known by various nicknames, among which the most famous is “the Ladies”.
Initially, their museum was located in a rather modest building and they opened it to the public on November 7, 1929, right at the onset of the Great Depression.
It was one of the first American museums to be entirely dedicated to modern and avant-garde art.
The museum’s collection, which originally consisted of only eight prints and one drawing obtained through a donation, quickly expanded. In November 1929, the first successful exhibition was held, in which works by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne. were displayed.
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