Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City
Cooper-Hewitt Museum is a design museum in New York City that features exhibits of classic and contemporary design. The museum highlights the aesthetic appeal of everyday objects such as household appliances and even toothbrushes. It also covers designs in architecture and graphic arts.
The Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints is one of the sizable collections in Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. This collection is made up of over 160,000 art pieces that depict the visual history of American and European design. It includes works from the Renaissance period up to art pieces that reflect contemporary times. The extensive collection features designs for architecture, landscaping, jewelry, interior, fine arts, ornamental, industrial, and graphic arts.
Another interesting collection in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of New York City is the Product Design and Decorative Arts. Though not as extensive as the aforementioned collection, the exhibit features a rich display of ornamental objects which include ceramics, metalwork, glass, jewelry, lighting, and a lot more. This New York City museum also has a Textiles Collection that features more than 30,000 pieces. There are textile works that represent various woven and non-woven techniques and some of the historic pieces even date back to the Han Dynasty of China. The museum also has the largest collection of wallpapers in the country, not the images you put on your computer screen but actual wall coverings which were used since way before the digital age.
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum was founded in 1897 and has been a branch of the Smithsonian Institution since 1967. It is currently located in the Andrew Carnegie Mansion along Fifth Avenue in New York City.