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An Apollonaut travel guide
Moments in a longer story.
Selected milestones in the history of The Museum of Modern Art.
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Founding, buildings and collection
These dates describe the place you can learn about here. They are not a company timeline for Apollonaut.
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7 November 1929
The museum opens
MoMA opens in rented rooms in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue.
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10 May 1939
A home on 53rd Street
The International Style building by Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone opens.
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1941
The Starry Night
Van Gogh’s painting enters the collection through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.
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1953
The Sculpture Garden
Philip Johnson redesigns the garden as the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.
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1983
More room for the collection
An expansion led by César Pelli more than doubles the gallery space.
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20 November 2004
Taniguchi’s museum
The museum reopens after rebuilding by Yoshio Taniguchi.
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21 October 2019
A larger MoMA
An expansion by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Gensler opens, adding 47,000 square feet of galleries.
Follow the stories behind the dates
A timeline is a beginning. The longer history introduces the people and places; the sources below provide further context.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
