Peter Cooper 1791-1883 b.
New York, NY ·
d. New York, NY
2 East 91st Street
(212) 849-8400
Hours: Tues - Thurs: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Fri: 10:00am - 9:00pm
Sat: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sun: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Mon and holidays: Closed Admission:
$10.00
Senior Citizens and Students with I.D.: $7.00
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
And Smithsonian Institution Members
And children under age 12 are admitted free.
In 1897 Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt
established the first design museum in
the United States as part of The Cooper Union
for the Advancement of Science and Art,
the free school founded by their grandfather,
Peter Cooper.
The museum itself was transformed into the
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in
1967 when the collections were moved into
the Carnegie mansion on Fifth Avenue.
Andrew Carnegie lived in the mansion
from the time of its construction in 1902
until his death in 1919.
The Museum's collection today numbers
over 250,000 objects, with a library of 55,000
volumes and archives of designers and
design firms.
