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Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum chronicles the colourful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters and explores how they created The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Through archival photography and documents, personal drawings and correspondence, news clippings and ephemera, the exhibition introduces the sisters as educators, collectors, and philanthropists. This exhibition marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of the museum galleries at Cooper Union in 1897, and celebrates the Smithsonian Institution’s 175th year.

In their lifetimes, Sarah and Eleanor collected and donated over 50,000 objects (Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection currently has more than 215,000 objects). The collection of design objects they amassed is the foundation of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection today.

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