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What does moma mean?

Moma refers to the museum of modern art.

The Museum of Modern Art is located in midtown Manhattan, new york, and it is also one of the most outstanding collections of modern art in the world, called MoMA for short.

Located at 53rd Street 1 1 in Manhattan (between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue), this museum is often compared with the Metropolitan Museum. Although its collection is less than the former, it has a more important collection in the field of modern art.

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There are many classic works of modern American artists in this museum, such as Jackson Pollock, Georgia O 'Keeffe, cindy sherman, edward hopper, Andy Warch, Jean Michel Bastia, 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.