Museum of Modern Art

MoMA

One of the world's most important modern art temples, home to Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Monet's large Water Lilies triptych, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.

MoMA is located on West 53rd Street in Midtown, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It was founded in 1929. After its 2019 expansion, the exhibition space covers 15,500 square meters, and the collection holds 200,000 works. It spans paintings, sculpture, photography, design, architecture, and film, from the 1880s to the present. The museum's landmark works are concentrated on the fifth floor, covering the period from the 1880s to the 1940s. Highlights include Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, Matisse's Dance, Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Rousseau's The Dream, and Monet's Water Lilies triptych. The fourth floor covers Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art from the 1940s to the 1970s, with works by Pollock, Rothko, Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, and Marilyn, plus Lichtenstein. The second floor is devoted to contemporary art and media. The third floor houses the design galleries, which display a Porsche 911, a helicopter, and early Apple products, as well as photography. The sculpture garden on the first floor is open during free admission hours.

Adult admission is $30. Visitors under 16 enter free. On the first Friday of each month, from 4 to 8 p.m., New York City residents enter free. Your ticket also covers MoMA PS1, the branch in Queens.

Plan for 2 to 3 hours. Start on the fifth floor and work your way down. The Modern restaurant holds two Michelin stars. The first-floor café and the MoMA Design Store are worth a visit, and there's also a separate store across the street.

Getting there: the E or M train to 5 Av/53 St drops you right at the museum. It's a 5-minute walk from Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue, and you can combine your visit with Top of the Rock and St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Note that large bags must be checked. Lines are long on weekends and during free admission hours. Exhibits rotate, but The Starry Night is almost always on display.

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