The new York Museum of modern art is usually called MOMA – short for Museum of Modern Art. It is considered the most representative Museum of its kind in the world. Its collection is the most comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, design, architecture, photography, books, movies and Internet media.

The idea of the Museum came to a head three energetic ladies of the last century, wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Abby Aldrich and her best friends Lilly Plummer bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan (the trio was called "the Adamantine ladies"). Girlfriend doing charity work and collecting, Abby was very rich – the success was guaranteed. In 1929 ladies rented for the new Museum is quite modest premises on Fifth Avenue. The time to launch the project was chosen peculiar: after just nine days after a panic on wall street, which marked the beginning of the great depression.

The path to success was not strewn with roses: Abby's husband, the legendary John D. Rockefeller, Jr., contemporary art did not understand and did not want. Only ten years later, Abby persuaded him to change the temper justice with mercy: the millionaire donated a plot of land in Manhattan, and architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell stone built Museum building in the international style. At the official opening came six thousand guests, they were contacted by radio from the White house President Franklin Roosevelt.

In 1929, in the collection of the future Museum had eight prints and one drawing, now its collections include around 150 thousand works. MoMA is also the owner of 22 thousand films, four million images from the film, 300 thousand books and documents.

In the Museum's collection – paintings by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henri Rousseau, Jackson Pollock, sculptures by Auguste Rodin. Proud MOMA – exhibited masterpieces here: written by Henri Matisse in 1909 the first version of the famous "Dance" (the second is in St. Petersburg's Hermitage), "Starry night" by Vincent van Gogh, "Avignon girls" Pablo Picasso, "the Persistence of memory" by Salvador Dali, "water Lilies" by Claude Monet (famous triptych of the cycle, which the master gave thirty years of life). In 1958, on the second floor of the Museum there was a fire, "Lilies" were killed in the fire. The current version of the canvas Museum specially bought to offset a loss. The exhibition also features the work of prominent European and American artists: Georges Braque, Arshile Gorky, Fernand Leger, Aristide Maillol, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Noland.

The Museum is still closely connected with the Rockefeller family, and it gives him a huge opportunity. Summer Sundays at the local Garden sculptures Abby Aldrich are free concerts of classical music. In 2006, the Museum building was renovated and expanded under the project of the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Tourists should be aware that to bypass the exposure in one day is almost impossible – it's huge.