Former name | Madison Art Center, Madison Art Association |
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Established | 1901 |
Location | 227 State Street Madison, Wisconsin, US 53703 |
Type | Art museum |
Director | Paul Baker Prindle |
Website | mmoca |
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.
MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and contemporary art. Its mission is to educate and inspire by means of rotating permanent collection exhibitions, special exhibitions, film series, and educational programming. The museum opened in its current home adjacent to the Overture Center for the Arts on April 23, 2006. Both MMoCA and the Overture Center were designed by world-renowned architect César Pelli.