 The Museum Library is a comprehensive collection devoted to modern and contemporary art. The noncirculating collection documents painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, architecture, design, performance, video, film, and emerging art forms from 1880 to the present. Staff are available to help locate relevant collections and materials, or to direct your question to the appropriate department.
The Library's holdings include approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogues, 300 periodical subscriptions, and over 40,000 vertical files of announcements and ephemera about individual artists. Collection highlights include works on Dada and Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection,
and the Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D) Archive.
The combined catalogue of the Library, Museum
Archives, and Study Centers, called DADABASE,
is available online. DADABASE includes records for all material in the Library, including books, periodical titles, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, pamphlet files, artists' books, special collections materials, and Web sites. Records for selected material from the Museum Archives and Study Centers are also included.
The Libraries are now located at The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building in midtown Manhattan and at MoMA QNS in Long Island City, Queens. For details on access, locations, and hours, please see the Library FAQ.
Please note, the Library is closed on
the following days:
Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day)
Friday, July 4 (Independance Day)
The entire month of August
Monday, September 1 (Labor Day)
Thursday, November 27–Friday, November 28 (Thanksgiving)
Thursday, December 25–Friday, January 2 (Christmas and New
Years)
MoMA
Research FAQ
Library FAQ
DADABASE FAQ
Art Research
FAQ
Survey
of Archives of Latino and Latin American Art
Latin
American Bibliography
Jasper
Johns Bibliography
Jackson
Pollock Bibliography
Volunteering
The Museum Library, Archives, and the Department
of Education organize regular exhibitions in The Lewis B. and Dorothy
Cullman Education and Research Building. Exhibitions include:
Spaces for Learning at The Museum of Modern Art, 1929–1969
Documenting a Feminist Past: Art World Critique
America Fantastica: Art, Literature, and the Surrealist Legacy in Experimental Publishing, 1938–1968
Pictured above:
The Library Reading Room in The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. © 2006 Timothy Hursley
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