Museum of Modern Art

The New York Museum of Modern Art has a rich and sentimental history dating back to 1929, when Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., along with two other influential arts patrons--- Miss Lillie P. Bliss and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan---found the conservative museums and collections to be lacking. They wanted to offer something more to the community of New York art museums, something inclusive of modern art (which includes any work from the late 19th century to the present), and together founded The Museum of Modern Art New York, a tradition-breaking institution among New York art museums.From its humble beginnings as recipient of eight prints and one drawing, The New York Museum of Modern Art has grown to include over 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects.An impressive lineup of modern artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollack, and Andy Warhol are featured here. This world-class museum includes a special emphasis on film media, and owns more than 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents. The New York Museum of Modern Art also rotates its expansive collection on a regular basis to ensure as fresh a viewing experience as possible, even for regular museum-goers.