Museum of Design Atlanta, Design museum in Midtown Atlanta, United States.

The Museum of Design Atlanta occupies 9,000 square feet of street-level space at the corner of 16th and Peachtree Streets, across from the High Museum of Art. Its 6,500 square feet of exhibition space is divided into two galleries with concrete floors and clean industrial lines; the back gallery has a vaulted ceiling and windows rising two stories.

MODA opened in 1989 as the Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design in the Peachtree Center district of Downtown Atlanta. In 2003, after receiving local grants, it rebranded and refocused as a design museum, launching exhibits on Marcel Breuer, Japanese architecture, and handbag design. In 2011 it moved to Midtown, at 16th and Peachtree Streets, into a LEED Platinum-certified building restored by Perkins+Will.

MODA calls itself the only museum in the Southeast devoted exclusively to design, and its programme covers architecture, industrial and product design, interiors and furniture, graphics and fashion. Exhibitions have ranged from Italian motorcycle design to skateboard graphics and a quarter-century of international AIDS posters.

The museum sits in the heart of Midtown and is easy to reach by foot or public transit. Plan to spend a couple of hours exploring both gallery spaces and the rotating exhibitions on display.

The museum occupies the ground floor and former parking garage of a building restored by Perkins+Will. Upper floors hold Perkins+Will offices and the Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta Public Library, and the building is LEED Platinum-certified. Its first Midtown exhibition, Passione Italiana, showed a dozen Italian motorcycle designs by MV Agusta, Ducati, Bimota and Moto-Morini.