| The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the most visited places in America. This art museum is located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street near 5th and 6th Avenues. It is considered to be the leading museum of modern art not only in America but worldwide. Its entire collection includes a wide variety of works like architecture and design, drawings, painting and sculpture, photography, prints and illustrated books, film, and media.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a library and archives which boasts about its vast collection. It should be mentioned that it has a major resource and hold over 300,000 books. This vast collection of books includes all types of books in the world like artist books, and periodicals, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) contain primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
Sometimes Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is considered as a sister museum to the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the latter is a general art museum where all sorts of art works are stored. This one specializes in the area of modern art.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) boasts about its rare masterpieces collection. MoMA's collection at present includes more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills. The collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) houses such important and familiar works such as The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh,Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (Currently on loan, will return 6/2008), Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian, The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau,
Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, The Seed of the Areoi by Paul Gauguin, Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet, Dance by Henri Matisse, The Bather by Paul Cézanne, I and the Village by Marc Chagall, Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair by Frida Kahlo, Shimmering Substance by Jackson Pollock, Painting (1946) by Francis Bacon.
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In its exhibits it also includes works of several influential American artists including Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper, Chuck Close, Georgia O'Keefe, and Ralph Bakshi and many more.
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