The
Museum of Modern Art (
MoMA) is an
art museum located in
Midtown Manhattan in
New York City, on
53rd Street between
Fifth and
Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting
modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of
architecture and
design,
drawing,
painting,
sculpture,
photography,
prints,
illustrated books and
artist's books,
film and
electronic media. The Library's holdings include approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of
modern and
contemporary art.