Which New York museum houses Salvador Dalí’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory?

Salvador Dalí’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory is housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The small oil painting is one of Dalí’s most famous works. It shows several soft watches draped across a barren landscape, including one hanging over a branch and another appearing to melt over a ledge. Dalí used the watches to create a striking image of time losing its ordinary rigidity.

The Museum of Modern Art, usually called MoMA, acquired the painting in 1934. It remains one of the museum’s best-known works and a major example of Surrealist art. The painting is sometimes mistakenly described as being in a Spanish museum because Dalí was Spanish, but its permanent home is in New York.

Dalí later made variations on the theme of limp watches, including The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, but those are separate works. The original 1931 painting is the MoMA object.