New York's Museum of Modern Art MoMA is commonly called - short of the Museum of Modern Art. It is considered the most representative museum of its kind in the world. His collection - the most comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, design, architecture, photography, books, movies and Internet media.

The idea of ​​creating a museum came to a head three energetic ladies of the last century - the wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich her best friend Lilly Plummer Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan (the trio was called "indestructible Lady"). Girlfriends engaged in charity and collecting, Abby was terribly rich - the success was assured. In 1929, the ladies rented for the new museum modest premises on Fifth Avenue. The timing of the launch of the project was originally chosen: after just nine days after the panic on Wall Street, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

The road to success has not been a bed of roses: Abby's husband, the legendary John D. Rockefeller Jr., modern art did not understand and did not want to support the project. Only ten years later Abby persuaded him to temper justice with mercy: millionaire donated a plot of land in Manhattan, and architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Dyurell Stone built a museum building in the international style. At the official opening came six thousand guests, they turned on the radio from the White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1929, in the collection of the future museum were eight prints and one drawing, it now funds account for about 150,000 jobs. MoMA also owns 22 thousand films, four million frames of film, 300,000 books and documents.

The museum's collection - paintings by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henri Rousseau, Jackson Pollock, sculptures by Auguste Rodin. Pride MoMA - are exhibited are masterpieces written by Henri Matisse in 1909, the first version of the famous "Dance" (the second is located in St. Petersburg's Hermitage), "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh, "Avignon girl" by Pablo Picasso, "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali " Water Lilies "by Claude Monet (triptych of the famous series, which the artist gave thirty years of life). In 1958, on the second floor of the museum there was a fire, "Water Lilies" were killed in the fire. The current version of the web museum specifically bought to offset the loss of visitors. The exhibition also presents works by outstanding European and American masters: Georges Braque, Arshile Gorky, Fernand Léger, Aristide Maillol, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Noland.

The museum is still closely associated with the Rockefeller family, and this gives him a huge opportunity. In summer, on Sundays in the local Abby Aldrich Sculpture Garden are free concerts of classical music. In 2006, the museum building was renovated and expanded by the Japanese architect Yoshio project Taniguchi. Tourists should be aware that exposure to bypass one day is almost impossible - it is huge.