Cooper Hewitt

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is housed in a former English-style mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Built by Andrew Carnegie, the building is now home to one of the world's most important collections of design and decorative arts. The holdings grew out of the Cooper Hewitt family's European acquisitions as well as Carnegie's own collection. Here you can explore a broad range of decorative arts, displayed in the historic setting of the house, which was completed in 1903. As part of the Smithsonian Institution and the famous Museum Mile, the museum offers an in-depth look at the history of design and applied art.