The Museum of Modern Art
Modern art museum · Midtown West ·
World-class museum featuring modern & contemporary art & design
World-class museum featuring modern & contemporary art & design
"Newly opened opposite the Stalin-era Palace of Culture and Science, my visit coincided with the Kyiv Biennale, featuring heartbreaking and hopeful works exploring colonialism, cultural identity, and life under occupation." - Teddy Minford
"With holiday crowds gone, you can wander the galleries without the usual lines, settling into masterpieces at your own pace." - Lauren Dana Ellman Lauren Dana Ellman Lauren Dana Ellman is a New York-based writer and editor who specializes in travel, lifestyle, food, and shopping content. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"At MoMA I found a wide-ranging slate of artist-focused exhibitions: Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective presents some 300 works spanning bronze casts, wire sculptures, and paintings (on view through February 7, 2026); Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream gathers roughly 130 paintings and large-scale works that highlight Lam’s Picasso-adjacent idiom (on view through April 11, 2026); and Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep—opening November 18—spotlights the New York Abstract Expressionist’s experimental techniques (on view through February 8, 2026)." - Charlie Hobbs
"Located in Midtown, this influential giant is larger than it appears from the street, spanning 630,000 square feet and drawing more than a million visitors a year to see masterworks by Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Diane Arbus, and more. While racing to the fifth-floor Collection Galleries for The Starry Night and Monet’s Water Lilies is understandable, don’t miss the time-bound exhibitions that tell new stories—and leave time to pore over the remarkable books and objects in the famed gift shop." - Charlie Hobbs, Andrea Whittle
"MoMA is a thing of beauty. The collection is stunning and extensive. One could easily get lost in exploring the building alone. With a constant sense of movement between their permanent collection and glorious temporary exhibitions, this is not to be missed." - Visualized
