This Day in History: MoMA Opens to the Public, 1939
November 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

The MoMa was founded in 1929, and moved into, and out of, temporary locations, but in 1939 finally opened the doors of the building it still occupies in midtown Manhattan. The most stunning reinvention of the museum — the ‘New MoMa’ — opened to the public on November 20, 2004. Read more about the building’s state-of-the-art architecture and design…

SundayArts Interview: Glenn D. Lowry, MoMa Director
Thirteen/WNET president Neal Shapiro interviews Lowry about the expansion and renovation by architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Watch.

NewsHour: The Art of the New
Jeffrey Brown looks at the redesigned Museum, a story which aired on Nov. 29, 2004. Watch.

Other video on exhibitions
See more video about the exhibitions that have more recently taken place at MoMA here.

MoMA in 1939
Read President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech about MoMA, from 1939.

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