Museum of Design Atlanta moves to Midtown

MODA has announced it will move to a new location in Midtown Atlanta across from the Woodruff Arts Center. Shows will open in the new space beginning January 2011. From this afternoon’s press release:

As part of a generous offer from architectural firm Perkins + Will, MODA will encompass a 9,000 sq. ft. space at the ground level of the firm’s new offices. With the new location, MODA will earn its place within the Midtown Arts Corridor, attracting more attention and plenty of new visitors to the Southeast’s only museum dedicated solely to the design disciplines.

“We can’t wait to get to our new space and be surrounded by the vibrant Midtown arts offerings,” says MODA Executive Director Brenda Galina. “The timing could not be better. We have outgrown our current location.” Since its inception in 2004, MODA has been located in a Marriott Marquis Tower on Peachtree Center Avenue, a space that has sometimes been difficult to access and has offered little in the way of foot traffic.

Relocating across from the WAC should at the very least increase MODA’s traffic — the museum’s current location off Peachtree Center Avenue in Downtown Atlanta always seemed a bit problematic, as did its compartmentalized layout within the Marquis Two Tower. Upcoming 2011 exhibitions include, Passione Italiana: Design of the Italian Motorcycle, Something Borrowed, Something New: Wedding Fashions around the World, Water Dream: Experience the Bathroom Like Never Before and Graphic Intervention: 30 Years of International AIDS Posters.