MoMA - Plan Your Visit

The entrance is at 11 West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan.

Take the E or M train to 5th Avenue/53rd Street, or the B, D, F or M train to 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller Center and walk a few blocks north. If you drive, use one of the commercial garages nearby, as MoMA has no parking of its own.

Checkroom: Leave coats and items you do not want to carry at the checkroom. Collect everything before the museum closes, as nothing can stay overnight. Large umbrellas go in the umbrella rack at the entrance.

Restrooms: All are wheelchair accessible. Single-user, family and all-gender restrooms are on several floors, and there is a baby-changing station on every floor.

Wi-Fi and audio guides: Free Wi-Fi covers the building. The free Bloomberg Connects app has a map and audio guides; headphones are not required but make things easier.

Finding your way: Screens in the main lobby and next to the elevators show what is on view and where.

Strollers: Welcome, though some galleries have limited space and strollers cannot go on the escalators.

Every gallery, entrance and facility at MoMA is wheelchair accessible, with elevators throughout and power-assist doors on both 53rd and 54th Streets.

Getting around: Manual wheelchairs, rollators and portable stools are free to borrow at all entrances on a first-come, first-served basis, in adult, wide and child sizes. Return them to the main lobby when you leave. If standing in line is difficult, tell a security officer or guest assistant and they will help you skip it.

Seeing and hearing: Verbal descriptions of collection works and assistive listening for sound pieces are available through the Bloomberg Connects app and the QR codes in the galleries. Audio description and ASL or CART for public programs can be arranged with at least two weeks' notice.

Sensory support: Free sensory kits with noise-canceling headphones, fidgets, sunglasses, a sensory map and a social guide are available at the main lobby information desk, the Crown Creativity Lab and the Heyman Family Art Lab. The map points out quieter spaces and places to sit.

Service animals: Guide dogs and other trained service animals are welcome. Pets and emotional support animals are not.

There are two MoMA shops on 53rd Street. The Museum Store is next to the main lobby, and the MoMA Design Store is directly across the street at 44 West 53rd Street. You do not need a museum ticket for either.

Expect homeware, kitchen and office pieces, tech accessories, clothing, prints, books and toys. Some products are designs held in the museum's own collection, and MoMA's curators approve everything on the shelves.

Sales help fund the museum's exhibitions, conservation work and education programs.

Beyond the headline paintings, look out for these:

Dance (I) (1909) by Henri Matisse

One: Number 31, 1950 (1950) by Jackson Pollock

Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) by Frida Kahlo

Bicycle Wheel (1951) by Marcel Duchamp

Christina's World (1948) by Andrew Wyeth

Displays change, so check the screens in the lobby for what is on view during your visit.