Museum of Modern Art har varit mycket tongivande för historieskrivningen och definitionen av modernismen, "the international style". Svensk modernisms mest kärnfulla period 1930-1960, representeras av 55 objekt i MoMAs arkitektur och designsamling. De svenska objekten i samlingen visar på en reception av svensk design som mest inflytelserik under 1950-talet. Årtiondet är det mest välrepresenterade, till antalet objekt räknade, men ger också den mest representativa bilden av hur svensk design marknadsfördes i USA. De mest inflytelserika tillfällena för marknadsföringen av svensk design i USA under åren 1930-1960 är enligt konstprofessor Jeff Werner (Medelvägens estetik: Sverigebilder i USA), världsutställningen i Chicago 1933, världsutställningen i New York 1939 och utställningen Design in Scandinavia 1954-1957. Knappt hälften av de representerade formgivarna i MoMAs samling fanns med under marknadsföringen ,vilket kan visa på samband mellan marknadsföringen och samlingens karaktär. / Museum of Modern Art has been very influential for the historiography and definition of modernism, "the international style". Swedish modernisms most vigorous period 1930-1960, is represented by 55 items in MoMA´s Architecture and Design collection. The Swedish objects in the collection show at a reception of Swedish design as most influential during the 1950s. The decade is the most well-represented, in number of objects counted, but also gives the most representative picture of how Swedish design was marketed in the United States. The most influential opportunities for the promotion of Swedish design in the United States during the years 1930-1960 are according to art professor Jeff Werner (Medelvägens estetik: Sverigebilder i USA), the World's Fair in Chicago in 1933, the World's Fair in New York in 1939, and Exhibition Design in Scandinavia 1954-1957. Just under half of the represented designers in the MoMA collection, were included in the marketing, which can show correlations between marketing and the collection's character.

1- En primer lugar se ha elaborado sucintamente la perspectiva histórica del museo de arte moderno, es decir desde que nace la ayuda institucional al artista con la celebración de los Salones y la creación del primer museo de artistas vivos del mundo en el palacio Luxemburgo de París. 2- Posteriormente, nos centramos en el nacimiento del Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York, Moma, creado en 1929 con apenas 13 obras, el cual se convirtió en referencia obligada desde el punto de vista museológico para la creación de los futuros museos de arte moderno en el mundo durante casi seis décadas. Termina el trabajo con el modelo creado en los años setenta, la factoría beaubourg, el museo de la época postindustrial, y el museo postmoderno de los ochenta y sus repercusiones en la nueva museología. Si el Moma de Nueva York, creó una colección enciclopédica del arte del siglo XX, el Musée National d'art Moderne, consiguió implicar a la ciudadanía en el arte moderno. Tan importantes eran las colecciones que se mostraban en su interior como el flujo de visitantes y curiosos que se agolpan en el exterior. Finaliza con una aproximación a los Fonds Regionaux d'art Contemporain y el nacimiento de los Centros de Cultura Contemporánea. / 1- In the first place, a historic perspective of the modern art museum has been concisely elaborated, that is to say, since institutional grants to artists are created with the celebration of the Halls and the creation of the first museum of living world artists at the Luxembourg Palace of Paris.2- Subsequently, we focus on the birth of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MOMA, created in 1929 with only thirteen pieces of art. This museum became an obliged reference from a museological point of view for the creation of the future modern art museums all over the world for almost six decades. The work concludes with the model created in the 1960s, the factory "Beaubourg", the postindustrial period museum, and the postmodern museum of the 1880s and its repercussions in the new museology. If the MOMA in New York created an encyclopedic collection of the art of the 20th Century, the "Musée National d'art Moderne", achieved to involve the citizens with the modern art. The collections showed inside were as important as the flow of visitors and curious that crowded outside. It ends with approximation to the "Fonds Regionaux d'art Contemporain" and the birth of the Centres of Contemporary Culture.