New York, United States

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Founded in 1897 by Sarah, Eleanor, and Amy Hewitt as part of the Cooper Union and reorganized as a Smithsonian museum in 1967, it occupies the former Andrew Carnegie Mansion on New York's Upper East Side. Its collection of more than 215,000 objects spans three thousand years of design — from textiles, wallcoverings, and product and graphic design to digital interfaces — and is paired with interactive galleries that invite visitors to draw, save, and remix design ideas.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile. It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, along with the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of American Art New York Research Center in the Flatiron District. Unlike other Smithsonian museums, Cooper Hewitt charges an admissions fee. Its collections and exhibitions explore design aesthetic and creativity from throughout the United States' history. Source: Wikipedia