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Documents for "Art museums":

• Art Institute of Chicago museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building,...

• Ashmolean Museum see under Ashmole, Elias.

• Barnes Foundation museum in Merion, Pa. Founded in 1922, it houses the impressive art collection amassed by Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872-1951, a wealthy Philadelphia physician, patent-medicine inventor, and pharmaceutical manufacturer. Introduced to art by a schoolmate, the painter William Glackens, Barnes acquired thousands of works of art and objects. The collection, which is particularly rich in impressionist and postimpressionist paintings, includes European and American moderns, Old...

• Beaubourg popular name for the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture , museum in Paris, France; the popular name is derived from the district in which it is located. Proposed by French president Georges Pompidou in 1969, the center was designed by architects Renzo Piano of Italy and Richard Rogers of England along with the Danish engineering firm of Ove Arup and was opened in 1977. Its industrial style, with bold architectural elements such as its steel...

• Brooklyn Museum of Art museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). Opened...

• Fitzwilliam Museum building erected to house the art collection and library bequeathed in 1816 to Cambridge Univ. by Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam. Both the collection and the building have been enlarged by later...

• Getty Center art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Designed by architect Richard Meier , the center opened in 1997. The museum houses the Getty collections of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative arts as well as European and American and...

• Glyptothek museum in Munich on the Königsplatz, founded by Louis I of Bavaria to house his collection of ancient and modern sculptures. Among these is the famous Barberini faun (c.200 BC). The neoclassical...

• Guggenheim Museum officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, major museum of modern art in New York City. Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular...

• Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the world's foremost houses of art. It was reconstructed in the neoclassical style in the 19th cent. from the original pavilion palace erected by Catherine...

• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H...

• Los Angeles County Museum Los Angeles, Calif. The original museum opened in 1913. Among its important patrons was William Randolph Hearst , whose enormous collection brought the museum major status among the country's art houses. The museum's collections include European, Asian, and American painting, sculpture, and the decorative...

• Louvre foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. In 1546 Pierre Lescot was commissioned by Francis I to erect...

• Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, founded in 1870. The Metropolitan Museum is the foremost repository of art in the United States. It opened in 1880 on its present site on Central Park facing Fifth Ave. The building...

• Museum of Fine Arts Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in...

• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr , Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the museum specialized in loan shows of contemporary European and American art. A start toward its permanent collection was...

• Museum of Primitive Art New York City, a privately supported institution, established in 1957. It was devoted entirely to the arts of the indigenous cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and to those art objects...

• museums of art institutions or buildings where works of art are kept for display or safekeeping. The word museum derives from the Greek mouseion, meaning temple to the works of the Muses. This article is chiefly...

• National Gallery London, one of the permanent national art collections of Great Britain. Its building, in Greek style, stands in Trafalgar Square. It was designed and erected (1832-38) by William Wilkins and was...

• National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C., an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution , established by act of Congress, Mar. 24, 1937. Andrew W. Mellon donated funds for construction of the building as well as his own collection of 130 American portraits. The marble building was designed by John Russell Pope; it was opened in Mar., 1941. The east...

• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, established in 1805, incorporated in 1806. It is supported by private endowment. The academy grew out of a proposal by Charles Willson Peale for an art institution; this led to the...

• Philadelphia Museum of Art established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was made to keep the building permanently...

• Pompidou, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges see Beaubourg.

• Prado national Spanish museum of painting and sculpture, Madrid, one of the finest in Europe. Situated on the Paseo del Prado, it was begun by Juan de Villanueva in 1785 for Charles III, as a museum of...

• Rijks Museum or Ryks Museum , Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, founded in 1808 by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland, as the Great Royal Museum in the Royal Palace. In the same year, 225 paintings from the National...

• Ryks Museum see Rijks Museum.

• Shelburne Museum see under Shelburne , Vt.

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum see Guggenheim Museum.

• South Kensington Museum see Victoria and Albert Museum.

• Storm King Art Center sculpture park and museum located in Mountainville, Orange co., SE N.Y., some 55 mi (89 km) north of New York City. Founded in 1960, it is comprised of 500 acres (202 hectares) of lawns, fields,...

• Uffizi palace in Florence, Italy, built in the 16th cent. by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici as public offices. It houses the state archives of Tuscany and the Uffizi Gallery, one of the world's richest art collections. Besides the Florentine, all the Italian as well as the Dutch and Flemish schools are well represented, with works by Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo,...

• Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of applied art bought from the Great...

• Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914-18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918-28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30)...