"For its third building in 35 years, the Whitney Museum chose a 100 x 125 foot site in the art gallery district of mid-town Madison Avenue where, among an environment of tall apartment buildings, a new, distinctive, and significant home was to be located. The housing of changing exhibitions rather than a permanent collection has determined the new museum's philosophy, planning, and details. Three of its floors have large, open gallery spaces with suspended precast concrete open grid ceilings, detailied to receive movable wall panels and flexible lighting that can be rearranged for each new show. Outside, the cube-like building is sheathed with granite."

—Tician Papachristou. Marcel Breuer: New Buildings and Projects. p122.

"This distinctive museum makes the most of its small corner site. Upper floors, affording maximum gallery space within, cantilever outward, importantly over its shadowy forecourt; seven windows—irregularly spaced trapezoids that vary in size—mark its granite facade like symbolic eyes."

—from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p15-16.

The Creator's Words

"What should a museum look like, a museum in Manhattan? Surely it should work, it should fulfill its requirements, but what is its relationship to the New York landscape? What does it express, what is its architectural message?

"It is easier to say first what it should not look like. It should not look like a business or office building, nor should it look like a place of light entertainment. Its form and its material should have identity and weight in the neighborhood of 50-story skyscrapers, of mile long bridges, in the midst of the dynamic jungle of our colorful city. It should be an independent and self- relying unit, exposed to history, and at the same time it should transform the vitality of the street into the sincerity and profundity of art."

—Marcel Breuer. from Tician Papachristou. Marcel Breuer: New Buildings and Projects. p14-15.

Address

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
General Information: (212) 570-3676
Ticketing: 1 (877) WHITNEY

Visitor information subject to change without notice:

Museum Hours
Monday - Tuesday	Closed
Wednesday - Thursday	11 am - 6 pm
Friday	1 pm - 9 pm
	6 pm - 9 pm (Pay-what-you-wish)
Saturday - Sunday	11 am - 6 pm
Admission
Adults	$12.00
Senior citizens 62+	$9.50
Students with valid ID	$9.50
Children under 12	Free
Members	Free