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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the collection.
A sculptor’s studio club, three homes in Manhattan and a building by the river offer several ways into the story of the Whitney.
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A sculptor’s museum
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1930, and it opened in Greenwich Village in 1931.
Its collection now holds more than 25,000 works by more than 3,500 artists.
Three homes in Manhattan
After West 8th Street, the museum moved to 54th Street in 1954 and to Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith’s building on Madison Avenue in 1966.
Renzo Piano’s building on Gansevoort Street opened in 2015.
A building by the river
The Gansevoort Street building stands at the southern entrance to the High Line, with terraces that look out over the city and the Hudson.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
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