Museum of arts and design Reviews

Excellent museum store! Perfect to buy a gift for others...or yourself.

Last Saturday I visited the Museum of Arts and Design, at Columbus Circle. Frankly, I was quite disappointed: of the current exhibits only the jewelry one managed to catch my attention, and over half the pieces in that were awful. Honestly, the visit almost felt like a waste of money, I should have just visited the MoMA again instead.

Honestly, short exhibit but a lot of beautiful art. Normally I would have gave it a four star because of how clean it is and how beautiful the art was but I ran into a problem and it was too short. Unless you read every single detail on the art work. Which we read a decent amount. Problem is, if you are vaccinated and want to roam without a mask, don t bother. I didn t have a mask on for a couple of floors until one security guard harassed me for it. After that, I felt like every floor we were in they kept nitpicking at us. That s why I took off another star, literally in every floor after the guy with the mask, a security HAD to say something to us, even when I kept my mask on, some how they found a way to say something. We saw the black tape on the floor and explained to my daughter it s so you don t cross it. The security guard came at us and told us not to cross it, but I told him we weren t crossing it and looked at our feet again and wondered why he approached us that way. After I told my daughter not to point at anything because I was starting to suspect he might think we are touching things too. While we made our way to the the exit, I saw the security guard speaking into the mic saying something as soon as we were leaving. The pattern continues into the next floor where this security guard, specifically, made it obvious that he was following us. I felt a bit harassed actually. I didn t think anything when I tried to point out a detail on one art piece and SURE ENOUGH, the security started blaming me for touching. I told him to look at the glass and I didn t even touch it. If they were communicating with each other about us, that was completely unprofessional and it s pretty much harassment, especially if I continued to leave the mask on after the first guy. I didn t like that and even though there s beautiful art here, I would not return because I flat out felt unwelcome by that. That s another I took an extra one, just because they won t respect if you re vaccinated but they ll harass you for other stuff. I wouldn t recommend it, but I m sure they don t do this to everyone. If they do that s ridiculous. Not with the ticket price for such a short stay so if you really want to go, get your ticket on Groupon for a discounted ticket. Glad I didn t pay the full price because then I would have been more livid in wasting money since exhibits were closed. I recommend they do house exhibit, which was our fav. You ll see more at other museums and won t be harassed like this one.

Well kept and manage.
Stop by if you are in the area.
A beautiful place to spend some quality leisure time.
Front desk staff could perhaps be friendlier towards visitors.
I don't think anyone even welcomes us or said hello. Love the iconic skyline of the museum location.

What a fun hidden gem! Tons of cool exhibits, including a dollhouse exhibit that my daughter fell in love with! Would come again!

Fun place to look at art. They have a lot of different kinds of art there. Wish there was some more interactive installations that they could get from artists. All of the artists were interesting to learn about. I had fun looking at all of the art.

Wonderful exhibits. Artwork was equally captivating to a senior citizen and a 10 year-old! Small museum so it is easy to see everything in one visit but so enjoyable you want to go back again.

This was a highlight of the week. I went at a great time because I love jewelry and I love glass work. I was inspired by so many things. And fun to watch the movie about Brian Clarke. Be sure to use the stairs so you can see the great windows.

I enjoyed the Museum of Arts and Design. All of the exhibits were interesting. I especially liked the Brian Clarke and Beth Lipman exhibits. The Art Jewelry exhibit was great, as well.

I would recommend this art museum. The exhibition was interesting and the arts were pretty unique.