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New Museum Past & Future. Since our founding over forty-five years ago, the New Museum has been a site of experimentation and a hub for new art and new ideas, where risk-taking and discovery are encouraged and supported. We have always been a future-facing museum—not a place for preserving and recording history, but a place where history is made.
Visit :: New Museum. The New Museum is temporarily closed to continue construction of our OMA-designed building expansion, anticipated to reopen in early 2025. Learn more about our new building!
The New Museum began as an idea in the mind of founding Director Marcia Tucker. As a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1967 through 1976, Tucker observed firsthand that new work by living artists was not easily assimilated into the conventional exhibition and collection structure of the traditional art museum.
Features. Brooklyn's beachside attraction holds the Cyclone roller coaster, the Wonder Wheel, the New York Aquarium, the original Nathan’s Famous and a boardwalk. The New Museum, on the Bowery, is New York’s fresh face of contemporary art. Check out our complete guide to the New Museum.
Containing over 6,000 exhibition images, exhibition descriptions, publications, public program chronology, and a searchable database of over 3,700 artists, curators, and institutions associated with the New Museum's programming.
New Museum, museum in New York City dedicated to exhibiting work by contemporary and living artists. The museum was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, a former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Dig deeper into publications, images, video, interactive media, and other materials documenting the Museum’s legacy of new art and ideas. Explore R.
