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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
AT THE NEW MOMA

The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art opens on October 21 with visual arts and as autonomous disciplines with specific
galleries dedicated to architecture and design across histories and methodologies.
all floors of the Museum. Each of these installations These new and extensive spaces allow the Department
explores different topics, extending a dialogue with of Architecture and Design not only to explore
the integrated presentations of all mediums and the collection through changing themes in regular
chronologies throughout the collection galleries rotations, but also to mount topical installations that
on the fifth, fourth, and second floors. The location leverage the Department’s holdings to address current
of the architecture and design galleries on each of disciplinary conversations and public concerns.
these floors, as well as on the first and third floors, This new approach to ever-evolving collection-
reflects the curatorial vision of a “both–and” approach, based installations ensures that visitors can always
acknowledging architecture and design both as view dynamic work from modern and contemporary
integral to the interdisciplinary conversation with the architects and designers.

Installation view of Architecture Systems (gallery 417), The Museum of Modern
Art, New York. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Robert Gerhard

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