The collection of cultural relics in the Museum of Modern Art

At present, the Museum of Modern Art has more than 6.5438+0.5 million personal works, more than 20,000 movies and 4 million movie stills. The most famous works include:

Van Gogh: starry night

Picasso: The Maiden of Vignon.

Dali: Eternity of Memory

Monet: Water lilies

Mathis: Dance and Red Studio

Mondriaan: Broadway Jazz.

Cezanne: Bathers and Life.

Carol: A self-portrait of a broken hair.

Rousseau: Sleeping Gypsies

The museum also houses many classic works of modern American artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Georgia O 'Keeffe, cindy sherman, edward hopper, Andy Warch, Jean Michel Busia, Cenk Cross, Rafe baggs and Jasper Johns.

The Museum of Modern Art is also an important institution that includes photography in its collection. Under the auspices of edward steichen, the first director of photography department, it collected many masterpieces of news photography and artistic photography, which was expanded by John Zakowski to include movies and movie stills, making this museum an important place for American movies and movie collections.

The museum also began to collect design works, including Noguchi's design products, chairs and lamps designed by george nelson, Paul Laszlo and Ames. The collection is quite extensive, from the first ball bearing with automatic angle adjustment to a Bell 47D 1 helicopter.