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| Arnold Arboretum - Harvard University - The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, comprises both a museum and a school. The original, core beaux-arts building was built in 1893 to be used as an auxiliary meeting place for the World's Columbian Exposition and to become the permanent home of the Art Institute. The museum houses more than 300,000 works of art within its 10 curatorial departments. Among its great treasures are the legendary artworks "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" -1884 by Georges Seurat, "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper and 33 paintings by Claude Monet. |
| The Art Institute of Chicago - The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, comprises both a museum and a school. The original, core beaux-arts building was built in 1893 to be used as an auxiliary meeting place for the World's Columbian Exposition and to become the permanent home of the Art Institute. The museum houses more than 300,000 works of art within its 10 curatorial departments. Among its great treasures are the legendary artworks "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" -1884 by Georges Seurat, "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper and 33 paintings by Claude Monet. |
| Bob Kessel - Bob Kessel's "Newport Nauticals" series uses bold color and strong shapes, taking its' inspiration from sailboats and coastlines. Bob Kessel is a nationally known illustrator and commercial artist. He has worked in publications and advertising for over 30 years. His illustrations have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Texas Monthly, The Boston Globe, The Berkeley Monthly, Japan Times. |
| The British Library- The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's great repositories of knowledge. Serving business, educational, and individual needs, its vision is to make the intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage of the world accessible to all people. Materials from 300 BC to today are included in its holdings, and treasures such as the Magna Carta and Leonardo da Vinci's notebook are counted among its treasures. |
| The British Museum- The British Museum is one of the greatest museums of the world. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1753 and is now governed under the British Museum Act 1963. General management and control are vested in a Board of twenty-five Trustees (one appointed by the Sovereign, fifteen by the Prime Minister, four nominated by Learned societies and five elected by the Trustees themselves. |
| Cleveland Botanical Garden- Cleveland Botanical Garden was founded in 1930 as the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland. The Garden Center began with an extensive collection of garden books donated by Mrs. Andrew Squire. Originally, housed in an abandoned boathouse on Wade Park lagoon in front of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Garden Center’s purpose was to have a space to hold a collection of books where "anyone may come to receive information on horticulture and gardening." In 1966, the Garden Center moved to its present location on East Boulevard, the site of the old Cleveland Zoo. Remnants of the old bear pit still remain and have been transformed into beautifully landscaped flower show gardens and a woodland garden. |
| DeGolyer Library- Today the DeGolyer Library holds 100,000 volumes of rare and scholarly works devoted to the exploration and discovery of the Americas, Western Americana, the Spanish borderlands, and Texana. The library also possesses materials related to transportation history, especially railroads worldwide. In addition to printed books, the library preserves 5000 cubic feet of manuscript material and 400,000 photographs. |
| Denver Art Museum- The Denver Art Museum, founded in 1893, has the largest and most comprehensive collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast. Its American Indian art collection is internationally renowned, and its pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art collection is outstanding. Other impressive collections include Painting & Sculpture, Asian, Architecture, Design & Graphics, Modern & Contemporary, and Textile Art. |
| Desert Botanical Garden- The Desert Botanical Garden is one of the best-maintained gardens in the world, enjoyed by local residents and visitors from around the world. It holds one of the world's foremost collections of desert plants with detailed records on all plants in the collection, information which is of both horticultural and botanical value. The collection and its documentation are of significance world-wide in conservation, education and research. |
| Desert Caballeros Western Museum - You'll find western art, cowboy gear, and Native American arts, plus period rooms and dioramas from Arizona's territorial era. Come discover the "West as it was" in Arizona's Most Western Museum. |
| Harvard University Art Museums- The Harvard University Art Museums, one of the leading arts institutions in the world, is distinguished by the range and depth of its collections, groundbreaking exhibitions, and original research. The three Harvard University Art Museums—the Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—are all outstanding institutions in their respective fields. The 150,000 objects in the collections date from antiquity to the present, and come from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. |
| The Israel Museum, Jerusalem- Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum today has, in a relatively short time, achieved world class status with collections ranging from prehistoric archaeology through contemporary art and with a dynamic roster of temporary exhibitions, publications, and educational activities. It is the leading cultural institution in Israel and is one of the largest encyclopedic museums in the world. |
| Lawrence Arts Center - For 25 years, the Lawrence Arts Center has acted as a unifying force in our community, drawing people of all ages, neighborhoods, backgrounds and abilities to participate in an ever-growing array of education, exhibition and performance programs. Performing and visual arts programs have steadily grown to an annual participation of 95,000. |
| Monterey Museum of Art - Noted for its endeavor to enrich and educate through the arts, the Monterey Museum of Art has been called "the best small town Museum in the United States." The museum's permanent collection includes California paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photography, Asian art, international folk art, and features significant bodies of work by Armin Hansen, William Ritschel, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. |
| Mount Holyoke College Art Museum - Recently renovated and expanded, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is one of the oldest collegiate museums in the United States. Its founding in 1876 was marked by the gift of Albert Bierstadt's majestic painting Hetch Hetchy Canyon. Located in the culturally rich Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts on one of America’s most beautiful campuses, the museum maintains an exquisite comprehensive collection of more than 11,000 objects, ranging from ancient Egypt, China, and Peru to contemporary America. |
| Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute - Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, a renowned fine arts center founded in 1919, features a permanent collection especially noted for artwork by the Hudson River School. The museum is also a major repository of 19th-century American decorative arts and 20th-century American paintings and drawings with important holdings of the New York School. |
| Museum of New Mexico - Museum of Fine Arts - This masterpiece of Pueblo Revival architecture was built in 1917 and as the state’s oldest art museum is home to more than 20,000 works of art, with an emphasis on artists working in the Southwest. View a distinguished collection that spans the historic art colonies of Taos and Santa Fe of the past 100 years to cutting-edge contemporary art from around the region and the world. |
| National Maritime Museum- The National Maritime Museum is the largest institution of its kind in the world, with over 2,000,000 items related to seafaring, navigation and astronomy in its care. The Museum's prints and drawings collection which comprises more than 60,000 items. Over 30,000 of these are drawings, watercolours and sketchbook sheets, ranging from works by the early Dutch marine painters in the 17th century to works by British marine painters of the 18th - 20th centuries, naval officers and the official artists of the Second World War who painted and drew all aspects of their experiences. |
| National Museum of American Illustration - The Museum's American Imagist Collection features masterpieces of illustrative art from 'The Golden Age of American Illustration,' (1870-1965) and is the largest such collection. Illustrators combine personal expression with pictorial representation in order to convey ideas. For the most part, they are traditionally trained at fine art schools. The American Illustrators Gallery (AIG) is the premier exhibitor, buyer and seller of American illustration art in the world. The American Illustrators Gallery features the foremost illustrators and exhibits only the highest-quality examples of their original artwork. International museums, auction houses, and the most renowned art dealers refer connoisseurs, collectors, and educators alike to the American Illustrators Gallery. |
| Orlando Museum of Art- The Orlando Museum of Art is a leading cultural institution dedicated to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of local, regional, national and international significance. Cited as one of the best art museums in the South, its American Art Collection consists of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures from the 18th century to the present. |
| The Rhode Island School of Design Museum - The RISD Museum traces the history of art from antiquity to the present through its collection of more than 85,000 works of art in all media and from all cultures. Works of Art range from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture to French Impressionist paintings, from Chinese stone and terracotta sculpture to contemporary art in every medium. |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew- The mission of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is to enable better management of the Earth's environment by increasing knowledge and understanding of the plant and fungal kingdoms - the basis of life on earth. On 3 July 2003 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was officially inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The eminence of Kew today is thanks to a succession of avid collectors, visionary scientists, inspired landscape architects and redoubtable gardeners who, over the centuries, have grown and developed the gardens, and the collections they contain. |
| Toledo Museum of Art - In the heart of the Midwest lies one of the great Art Treasures of this continent. With more than 30,000 items, The Toledo Museum of Art houses several thousand of them on a permanent basis in its 35 galleries. The Permanent Collection includes a great diversity of works from African Artists to Van Gogh, from Tibetan Sculptures to Degas, from Egyptian Stucco to Matisse. |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts houses a remarkable permanent collection of more than twenty thousand works of art from almost every major world culture. The museum’s collection of South Asian, Himalayan, and African art is among the finest in the nation. |
| The American Research Center - The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public, and promote and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. | | |
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