Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum located in the Upper East Side's Museum Mile in Manhattan, New York City.
It is one of 19 museums that fall under the wing of the Smithsonian Institution and is one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, the other two being
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.
It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design.
Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity.
In 1895, the granddaughters of Peter Cooper, Sarah Cooper Hewitt, Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Amy Hewitt Green, asked the Cooper Union for a space to create a Museum for the Arts of Decoration.
The museum would take its inspiration from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and would serve as a place for Cooper Union students and professional designers to study decorative arts collections.
Cooper Union's trustees provided the fourth floor of the Foundation Building.
It opened in 1897 as the "Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration." The museum was free and open to the public three days a week.
The three sisters served as directors of the Museum until Sarah Cooper Hewitt died in 1930.
After her death, four directors were appointed to run the museum.
Constance P. Hare served as chair.
In 1938, Edwin S. Burdell became the director of the Cooper Union.
The museum became his responsibility.
The board of directors was abolished an...