What museum houses 'The Starry Night'?

What museum houses “The Starry Night”? The answer is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889 while staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. The painting is based on the view from his east-facing bedroom window, although the village in the composition was added from imagination and sketches.

The work remained with Van Gogh’s family after his death and later passed through several private owners, including the art dealer Paul Rosenberg. MoMA acquired it in 1941, and it has remained one of the museum’s signature paintings ever since.

A common mix-up is the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds many important works by Van Gogh but not this canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has displayed Van Gogh works and held related exhibitions, but The Starry Night itself belongs to MoMA’s collection.