The Seattle Art Museum Downtown is one museum in three locations: Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the downtown waterfront. In 1931, Dr. Richard E. Fuller inspired Seattle to create the Seattle Art Museum by his donation of funds and an impressive Chinese and [...]
Philadelphia Museum of Art began as a legacy of the great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, held in Fairmount Park. At the conclusion of the celebrations, the Exhibition's art gallery - remained open as a Museum of Art and Industry "for the improvement and enjoyment of the people of the Commonwealth." Hours Tuesday through Sunday: 10:00 [...]
Founded in 1829, the Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to the art and artists of the United States of America. Colonial portraiture, nineteenth-century landscape, American impressionism, twentieth-century realism and abstraction, New Deal projects, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings, contemporary crafts, African American art, Latino art, and folk art are featured in the collection. Hours [...]
Founded in 1935, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the first museum on the West Coast devoted to modern and contemporary art. SFMOMA has championed the most innovative and challenging art of its time, and continues to exhibit work by both modern masters and less-established artists. Hours Monday through Sunday 11:00 am - 5:45 [...]
The J. Paul Getty Museum has two locations. The Getty Museum's secondary location is at the Getty Villa in Malibu. The Getty Museum at the Villa is dedicated to the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria, the Getty Villa houses approximately 44,000 works of art of which over 1,200 are on view. [...]
The J. Paul Getty Museum has two locations. The Getty Museum's primary location is the Getty Center in Los Angeles which houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The Getty Museum's secondary location is at the Getty Villa in Malibu. As a museum and educational center dedicated to [...]
The National Portrait Gallery DC presents the wonderful diversity of individuals who have left their mark on the United States of America from George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary Cassatt, George Gershwin, Sequoyah, Rosa Parks to Babe Ruth and Marilyn Monroe. The National Portrait Gallery boasts the only complete collection of presidential portraits outside [...]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities. Established in 1910 as part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, in Exposition Park, in 1961, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a separate, art-focused institution which attracts [...]
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), one of America’s most successful coke and steel industrialists, enjoyed the art he loved before he bequeathed it to the public. The art of The Frick Collection includes superb examples of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting. Each of sixteen galleries offers a unique [...]
The Art Institute of Chicago was founded as both a museum and school for the fine arts in 1879. In 1893, the Art Institute moved to its permanent home with the entry guarded by the two famous bronze lions built for the World's Columbian Exposition. Today, the Art Institute of Chicago has approximately 300,000 works [...]
