Museum of Design Atlanta
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| Established | 1993 |
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| Location | 1315 Peachtree Street Atlanta |
| Coordinates | 33°47′26″N 84°23′05″W / 33.790648°N 84.384634°W |
| Type | Design museum |
| Director | Dr. Laura Flusche, Ph.D. |
| Website | www.museumofdesign.org |
Coordinates: 33°47′25″N 84°23′5″W / 33.79028°N 84.38472°W
The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) is a design museum located at 1315 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. MODA is the only museum in the Southeast devoted exclusively to the study and celebration of all things design.
The Museum examines how design affects people's daily lives through exhibitions, K-12 educational outreach, and adult programming. MODA regularly features exhibitions on architecture, industrial and product design, interiors and furniture, graphics, fashion and more. The museum is located on Peachtree Street, across from the High Museum of Art, in Midtown.
MODA first opened in 1989 as the Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design, and was located in the Peachtree Center district of Downtown Atlanta. In 2003, after receiving a series of local grants, the group rebranded and refocused itself as a design museum, launching a critically lauded run of exhibits on subjects such as Bauhaus virtuoso Marcel Breuer, Japanese architecture, and ladies handbag design.
In 2011, MODA opened at its present location in Midtown Atlanta at the corner of 16th Street and Peachtree Street on the ground floor (and former parking garage) of a building restored by the architectural firm Perkins+Will. While the upper floors house Perkins+Will and the Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta Public Library, the Museum occupies 9,000 square feet (840 m2) of street-level space in the building that is LEED Platinum certified — the highest environmental rating awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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