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Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art
is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world.
Through the leadership of its trustees and staff, The Museum of Modern Art manifests this commitment by establishing, preserving, and documenting a permanent collection of the highest order that reflects the vitality, complexity, and unfolding patterns of modern and contemporary art; by presenting exhibitions and educational programs of unparalleled significance; by sustaining a library, archives, and conservation laboratory that are recognized as international centers of research; and by supporting scholarship and publications of preeminent intellectual merit. As The Museum of Modern Art faces the twenty-first century, the Trustees have concluded that the Museum should not be a shrine to the twentieth century but rather a vital, forward-looking institution committed to the art of the present as well as to the great achievements of the modern tradition. To continue to fulfill this mission, the Museum must expand its facilities and fundamentally alter its space. The Museum needs more and better-designed space to accommodate its various existing functions as well as new and different kinds of space to meet the challenges of the future and better articulate its programs. The Trustees have directed that the Expansion and renovation of the Museum result in a building that ensures the best of modern art be shown in the most compelling way, while dignifying the work of a diverse professional staff and making judicious use of the institution's resources (financial and otherwise), both in terms of initial construction and subsequent operation. The new museum should be not only an example of great architecture, but a great museum as well. |
Yoshio Taniguchi: Architect for Expansion and Renovation Project 
An exhibition of architects' submissions for the charette--a design exercise--that produced concepts for a new Museum of Modern Art |