The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. FoundĀed in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artĀists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.