New York - Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1897 by Amy, Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt (granddaughters of Industrialist Peter Cooper). The museum is devoted to historic and contemporary design, it began as part of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and has been a branch of the Smithsonian since 1967.

Featuring one of the world's largest collections of design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum has over 250,000 objects spanning 3,000 years of history. Housed in the former home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, it is the only museum on Museum Mile with an outdoor planted garden and lawn open during museum hours.