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The Museum of Modern Art seen from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, New York

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

DesignArtOpen until 5:30pmFrom $30Fifth Avenue/53rd Street (E, M)

The Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world's most important collections of modern and contemporary art, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film, design, and architecture from the 1880s to today. Founded in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and two fellow patrons, it pioneered the museum treatment of modern art and now displays icons like Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Monet's Water Lilies. A major 2019 expansion enlarged the galleries, while the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden remains a tranquil Midtown oasis.

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Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder at MoMA

Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder

Joan Snyder's abstract paintings layer oil and acrylic with fabric, plastic fruit, flowers and straw, drawing on more than 50 years of experimental, symbol-laden painting.

Now showingFrom 23 Apr$30
Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian at MoMA

Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian

Sheree Hovsepian assembles photographs of body parts with ceramics, hosiery, string and wood into three-dimensional compositions exploring the human figure in fragments.

Now showingFrom 24 Apr$30
Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt installed in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at MoMA

Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

Freestanding screens throughout the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden use machine learning and fMRI-derived data to generate hallucinatory images in real time, exploring nonhuman and machine cognition.

Now showing1 Jul – 29 Nov$30
The CICES exhibition centre, Dakar, Senegal (1971-74)

Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

The first major survey of modern architecture across seven West African nations from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, exploring how building shaped newly independent states. Most objects have never been shown publicly.

Now showing5 Jul – 2 Jan 2027$30
It's Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection at MoMA

It's Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection

Spanning more than 100 years, this exhibition traces animation's roots in New York through the work of more than 35 artists and filmmakers, from silent-era icons like Felix the Cat to independent animators of later decades.

Now showingFrom 1 Aug$30
Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE at MoMA

Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE

An installation extending Yoko Ono's decades of peace activism and her history of collaborations with MoMA, spreading her "Imagine Peace" message via billboards, postcards and other formats.

Now showingFrom 3 Sept$30
Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life installed in MoMA's lobby

Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life

A large-scale, site-specific commission in MoMA's lobby: a floor-to-ceiling kaleidoscope of bright colors and abstract patterns, painted over six weeks and inspired for the first time by music.

Now showingUntil 21 Feb 2027$30
Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives at MoMA

Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives

Marianne Wex's 1970s feminist photo survey of gendered body language is shown alongside contemporary artists Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Joiri Minaya, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star, reappraising bodies in public space.

Now showing20 Sept – 2 May 2027$30
Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies at MoMA

Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies

A survey of painter Nilima Sheikh's five-decade practice, tracing her engagement with Kashmir through narrative scroll paintings including a new, site-responsive series debuting at MoMA.

Now showing27 Sept – 13 Jun 2027$30
Calculating Empires, featured in Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design at MoMA

Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design

MoMA's first exhibition devoted entirely to information design, presenting 30 works of digital and analog design (including six new acquisitions) that explore how designers help visualize and shape our understanding of complex data.

Now showing27 Sept – 13 Jun 2027$30
The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors at MoMA

The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors

A survey of Surrealism's book-as-art-object experiments by André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Claude Cahun, Max Ernst and others, built around a major gift of rare artists' books from the Helen and Sam Zell Collection.

Now showing4 Oct – 23 Jan 2027$30
Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Wetland at MoMA

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Wetland

Digital installation Berl-Berl reimagines Berlin's lost wetlands as a singing, digital swamp, blending ecological research, Slavic folklore and game-engine technology to explore human and more-than-human worlds.

Now showing12 Oct – 7 Mar 2027$30
Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio at MoMA

Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio

For the first time in decades, rarely lent sculptures leave Brancusi's Paris atelier (closed for renovation) to join MoMA's Brancusi collection, alongside his photographs, films, hand-carved furniture, tools and archival materials.

Now showing25 Oct – 27 Feb 2027$30
Na Mira: NO SMOKING at MoMA

Na Mira: NO SMOKING

Na Mira's first solo museum exhibition in New York: a newly commissioned media installation in the Kravis Studio using radio frequencies, infrared heat and holography, drawing on Korean shamanism and structural filmmaking.

Upcoming14 Nov – 15 Feb 2027$30
Mondrian Boogie Woogie at MoMA

Mondrian Boogie Woogie

The first major survey of Piet Mondrian's final New York years (1940-44), reuniting Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie for the first time in 30 years and tracing boogie woogie's influence on his late compositions.

Upcoming21 Mar 2027 – 31 Jul 2027$30

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst: Candlelight

New commission by Herndon and Dryhurst: choral performances with audience participation in the Kravis Studio train AI models, whose audiovisual output shows on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall.

Upcoming27 Mar 2027 – 13 Jun 2027$30

Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982

Artist-centred history of modern African art in the independence years, built around congresses and festivals in Zimbabwe, Senegal, Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa.

Upcoming2 May 2027 – 14 Aug 2027$30

Eva Hesse: Wild Space, 1957–1970

New York's first major Eva Hesse museum show in over 20 years, centred on her drawings, with key paintings and major sculptures including Contingent (1969).

Upcoming30 May 2027 – 25 Sept 2027$30

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Getting there

11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

Nearest station: Fifth Avenue/53rd Street (E, M), 47–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center (B, D, F, M) and 57th Street (F)

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MonToday10:30–17:30
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Wed10:30–17:30
Thu10:30–17:30
Fri10:30–20:30
Sat10:30–17:30
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Seniors $22, students $17; children 16 and under free; free for New York State residents on Friday evenings

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How much does Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) cost?
Standard adult admission to Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is $30. Seniors $22, students $17; children 16 and under free; free for New York State residents on Friday evenings. Prices for special exhibitions and timed-entry slots may differ.
What are the opening hours of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is open Open daily 10:30am–5:30pm; Saturdays until 7:00pm. Holiday hours can vary, so check the museum's website before you go.
Where is Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, in the Midtown Manhattan area of New York. The nearest stations are Fifth Avenue/53rd Street (E, M), 47–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center (B, D, F, M) and 57th Street (F).
What can I see at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
Midtown Manhattan's temple of modern and contemporary art, from Van Gogh's Starry Night to Warhol, across six gallery floors. Current highlights include Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives, Collection 1880–1950 and Collection 1950–1980.
Do I need to book Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in advance?
Booking ahead is recommended, especially for weekends, school holidays, and special exhibitions. Tickets are normally on the museum's website, and a pre-booked timed slot helps you avoid queues at the entrance.
When is the best time to visit Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
Weekday mornings shortly after opening are typically the quietest, especially mid-week. Late afternoons can also be calmer. Weekends, school holidays, and the lunch rush are the busiest periods.

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