Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Garden of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is an arts and crafts museum in New York City . It is located on 5th Avenue and 91st Street on the Upper East Side in Manhattan . The museum is part of the Museum Mile and is part of the Smithsonian Institution . It has one of the world's largest collections of design and applied arts.

building

The industrialist Andrew Carnegie had the building built for himself as a residence. Built in the style of an English country house between 1899 and 1903, it had 64 rooms. When the owner of the house died in 1919, the building became the property of the Carnegie Corporation. The museum opened a little later. The Smithsonian Institution modernized in 1963, and in 1972 it became the owner of the museum. In 1976, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer carried out a renovation, and in 2014 it was renovated for around 91 million US dollars.

History of the collection

The "Museum for the Arts & Decoration at Cooper Union" opened in 1897 and was initially located on the 4th floor of the Cooper Union building in New York City. The collections of the daughters of the industrialist and art patron Abram Hewitt and his wife Sarah Cooper Hewitt were exhibited here. The sisters Amelia Bowman, Sarah and Eleanor Garnier Cooper Hewitt had purchased textiles and other handicrafts on their travels in Europe, which were exhibited together with the collections of Andrew Carnegie in his former home from 1919. After the two collections were merged, the design and applied arts could be expanded considerably. In 1967 the collections became the property of the Smithsonian Institute.

The director of the museum was Bill Moggridge from March 2010 to September 2012 . His successor was Caroline Baumann.

literature

• Eleanor G. Hewitt: The making of a modern museum. Wednesday Afternoon Club, New York 1919 ( archive.org  im  Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC (Ed.): A national museum of design. 1900 ( archive.org  in the  text archive - Internet Archive ).

Museum publications

• Catalog of a collection of engravings and etchings formed by the late George Campbell Cooper and presented by him to the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration . New York 1897 ( archive.org - Compiled by Fitz Roy Carrington).
• Five centuries of drawing: the Cooper Union Centennial Exhibition . New York 1959 ( archive.org - Selected and arranged by The Cooper Union Museum. Issued by the American Federation of Arts 1959–1961).
• Wallpaper. A picture-book of examples in the collection of the Cooper Union Museum . New York 1961 ( archive.org ).
• Treasures from the Cooper Union Museum . Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1967 ( archive.org - catalog for an exhibition July 13 to September 24, 1967).
• American Institute of Interior Designers (Ed.): The Decorative arts festival for Cooper Union Museum . New York, NY 1967, For the Benefit of the Cooper Union Acquisition Fund. Monday May 22, 1967 ( archive.org ).
• Publications of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in the Internet Archive

Web links

• Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
• Collections of the Cooper-Hewett Museum on the Internet Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robin Pogrebin: The redesign of a Design Museum. Renovating the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. In: The New York Times. June 16, 2014, accessed October 31, 2017.
2. ↑ Sarah Amelia Cooper-Hewitt
3. ^ The Carnegie Mansion on 5th Av. and 90th and 91st Street. In: A National Museum of Design. ( archive.org  in the  text archive - Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 40 ° 47 ′ 5 "  N , 73 ° 57 ′ 29"  W.