Abstract

This chapter provides an overview on the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1929, was granted a charter by the Regents of the University of the State of New York for establishing and maintaining in the city of New York, a museum of modern art, encouraging and developing the study of modern arts and the application of such arts to manufacture and practical life, and furnishing popular instruction. It became the first museum devoted to modern art in the United States. The Museum of Modern Art is unique in being the only multi-departmental museum in the modern field, representing the arts of industrial and graphic design, architecture, photography and film along with printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture.

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