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Big, grand, gigantic: But what should a museum with that size do?

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened its largest expansion yet. Now the hunger for space in the hot real estate market of New York is followed by the appetite for art.

Street view of the Museum of Modern Art from 53rd Street, where the bottom three of the 82 floors are used for the museum. Above that are luxury apartments with purchase prices of up to sixty million dollars.

Iwan Baan / MoMA

4000 square meters more exhibition space, that’s a record expansion, not just for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. But in the end it is not the size, but above all the collection concept and the integration of such a large institution into the city that are the decisive challenges.

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