The Family of Man was an ambitious exhibition of 503 photographs from 68 countries curated by Edward Steichen, the director of the New York City Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) Department of Photography. According to Steichen, the exhibition represented the "culmination of his career." The title was taken from a line in a Carl Sandburg poem. The Family of Man was exhibited in 1955 from January 24 to May 8 at the New York MoMA, then toured the world for eight years to record-breaking audience numbers. Commenting on its appeal, Steichen said the people "looked at the pictures, and the people in the pictures looked back at them. They recognized each other." The physical collection is archived and displayed at Clervaux Castle in Edward Steichen's home country of Luxembourg, where he was born in 1879 in Bivange. It was first exhibited there in 1994 after restoration of the prints. In 2003 the Family of Man photographic collection was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value. American tour 1955, 24 January – 8 May: Museum of Modern Art 1955, 22 June – 4 September: Minneapolis Institute of Art 1955, 7 October – 4 December: Dallas Museum of Art 1956, 24 January – 4 March: Cleveland Museum of Art 1956, 29 April – 20 May: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute 1956, 25 May – 15 July: Baltimore Museum of Art 1956, 4–25 June: Saint Louis Art Museum 1956, July: Corning Museum of Glass 1956, 9–30 July: GEH Dryden Gallery 1956, 3–30 October: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston World tour As part of the Museum of Modern Art's International Program, the exhibition The Family of Man toured the world, making stops in thirty-seven countries on six continents. More than 10 million people viewed the exhibit, which is in excess of the largest audience for any other photographic exhibition. The photographs in the exhibition focused on the commonalities that bind people and cultures around the world, the exhibition serving as an expression of humanism in the decade following World War II. The recently-formed United States Information Agency was instrumental in touring the photographs throughout the world in five different versions for seven years, under the auspices of the Museum of Modern Art International Program. Notably, it was not shown in Franco's Spain, in Vietnam, nor in China. European Tour 1 Central America, India, Africa, Middle East European Tour 2