Description: Also known as the MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, is widely considered one of the most influential modern art museums in the world. Every year, over 2.5 million people visit the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture, design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, artist’s books, films and electronic media. Visitor favorites include Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Matisse’s The Dance, Gauguin’s Te aa no areois. The museum is also home to a world-renown collection of art photography, and an amazing design collection, with works from legends like Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and George Nelson.
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