Museum of Modern Art

The MoMA is an arts museum which was founded in the late 1920s by three women (Lillie P. Bliss, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Mary Quinn Sullivan) to challenge conservative policies of traditional museums with a museum dedicated to modern art. The first director of MoMA was just 27 years old when he was appointed. The MoMA is now home to a variety of temporary and ongoing exhibits, including Van Gogh’s Starry Night, among an abundance of artworks that form the modern art canon.