The Museum of Modern Art was founded in New York in 1929, and its Department of Architecture and Design followed in 1932 as an early department of its kind. The museum treats design as part of modern culture, alongside painting, sculpture, photography, film, and architecture.
Its holdings include furniture, industrial products, architectural drawings, models, and design objects from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Visitors can encounter work associated with designers and architects including Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto, Charles Eames, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright, subject to the museum's changing displays.
