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| x Louvre |
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Art Gallery | 1793 | Rue de Rivoli |
The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ])—in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre—is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris,...
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| x Michael C. Carlos Museum |
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Art Gallery | 571 South Kilgo Circle |
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an art museum located in Atlanta on the historic quadrangle of Emory University's main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast, including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece,...
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| x Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao |
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Modern Art Museum | Abandoibarra Et. 2 |
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs...
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| x Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
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Art Gallery | 1071 5th Avenue |
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as "The Guggenheim") is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of...
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| x Milwaukee Art Museum |
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Art Gallery | 1888 |
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no...
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| x University of Michigan Museum of Art |
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Art Gallery | 1946 |
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA in Ann Arbor, Michigan with 94,000 sq ft (8,700 m) is one of the largest university art museums in the USA. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War,...
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| x Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
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Art Gallery | 200 Larkin Street |
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is a museum in San Francisco, California, United States. It has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world.
Until 2003, the museum shared a space with the de Young Museum in Golden Gate...
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| x Art Institute of Chicago |
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Modern Art Museum | 1879 | 111 South Michigan Avenue |
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is a renowned, encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. The Art Institute has one of the world's most notable collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection. Its...
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| x Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Art Gallery | 1870 | 1000 Fifth Avenue |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met) is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of...
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| x California Palace of the Legion of Honor |
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Art Gallery | 1924 |
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor (often abbreviated Legion of Honor) is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). The name is used both for the museum collection and for the building in which it is housed.
The Legion of...
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| x Judah L. Magnes Museum | Jewish museum | 1962 |
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library, formerly known as the Judah L. Magnes Museum from 1961 until its reopening in 2012, is a museum of Jewish history, art, and culture in Berkeley, California. The museum, which was...
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| x San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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Modern Art Museum | 1935 | 151 Third Street |
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on...
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| x Whitney Museum of American Art |
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Art Gallery | 1931 |
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection...
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| x The Museum of Russian Art | Art Gallery |
The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is a museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota that houses a collection of Russian art from the 20th century, especially Soviet art. Additionally, it often hosts temporary exhibitions of art and artifacts with more general...
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| x Salvador Dalí Museum |
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The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, houses the largest collection outside Europe of the works of the artist Salvador Dalí and is located on the Downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida...
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| x Grohmann Museum |
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The Grohmann Museum, at Milwaukee School of Engineering, is home to the world's most comprehensive art collection dedicated to the evolution of human work. The museum opened on October 27, 2007 and is located at 1000 N. Broadway, Milwaukee,...
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| x Yale University Art Gallery |
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Art Gallery | 1111 Chapel Street |
The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially...
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| x Chrysler Museum of Art |
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Art Gallery | 1933 | 245 West Olney Road |
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum in the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was originally founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (whose wife, Jean Outland...
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| x Lady Lever Art Gallery |
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The Lady Lever Art Gallery was founded in 1922 by Sunlight Soap magnate, William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, and dedicated to the memory of his wife.
Set in the attractive garden village of Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, also created by...
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| x Blanton Museum of Art |
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Art Gallery | 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. |
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art is the art museum and research center of the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly under the College of Fine Arts, the museum director now reports to the University's Executive Vice-President and Provost. The...
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| x Kyoto National Museum |
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The Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) is one of the three formerly imperially-mandated art museums in Japan. The museum is located in Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto. The collections of the Kyoto National Museum focus on pre...
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| x Royal Ontario Museum |
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History museum | 100 Queen’s Park |
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada's largest museum of world culture and natural history located in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest museums in North America, welcoming over a million visitors every year. The museum is located north...
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| x Princeton University Art Museum |
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The Princeton University Art Museum is Princeton University's gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1882, it now houses over 72,000 works of art that range from antiquity to the contemporary period. The Princeton University...
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| x Lenbachhaus |
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The Lenbachhaus in Munich contains an art museum and is part of Munich's "Kunstareal" (the "art area").
The Lenbachhaus was built as a Florentine-style villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach between 1887 and 1891 by Gabriel von Seidl. Some of the...
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| x National Museum of African Art |
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Art Gallery | 950 Independence Avenue, SW |
The National Museum of African Art is a museum that is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. Located on the National Mall, the museum specializes in African art and culture. It was established as a private museum in 1964, and...
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| x Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
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Art Gallery | 701 Mission Street |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local,...
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| x National Museum of Pakistan |
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The National Museum of Pakistan (Urdu: قومی عجائب گھر پاکِستان ) is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
National Museum of Pakistan was established in Frere Hall on April 17, 1950, replacing the defunct Victoria Museum. Frere Hall itself was built...
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| x Fitchburg Art Museum | Art Gallery |
The Fitchburg Art Museum is a regional art museum based in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA.
Founded in 1925 through a bequest of artist, collector, and educator Eleanor Norcross, the museum has 14 galleries showcasing American and...
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| x New Museum of Contemporary Art |
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The New Museum, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. Over the past five years, the New Museum has exhibited artists from Argentina, Brazil,...
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| x Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis |
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Art Gallery | 3750 Washington Blvd |
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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| x Alte Pinakothek |
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Art Gallery | Barer Straße 27 |
The Alte Pinakothek (Engl. Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings. The name (old Pinakothek...
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| x Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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Art Gallery | 8th and F Streets, NW |
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of American art.
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art that covers all regions and art movements found in...
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| x Heide Museum of Modern Art |
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Modern Art Museum |
Heide Museum of Modern Art, more commonly just Heide, is a contemporary art museum located in Bulleen, east of Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum comprises several detached buildings and surrounding gardens & parklands of...
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| x Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia |
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The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's...
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| x Queens Museum of Art |
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The Queens Museum of Art (QMA) is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States.
The Queens Museum of Art is located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens,...
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| x Georgia O'Keeffe Museum | Art Gallery |
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is dedicated to the work of the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American Modernism (late-nineteenth century - present. It opened on 17 July 1997, eleven years after the artist's...
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| x Hermitage Amsterdam |
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Hermitage Amsterdam is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg on the Amstel river in Amsterdam. The dependency is located at the former Amstelhof, a classical style building from 1681. The dependency has been displaying small...
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| x Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal |
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Art Gallery | 185 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest |
The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is a contemporary art museum in the Place des Arts complex, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The collection includes over 7,000 works of art by more than 1,500 artists (1,200 still living), focusing on contemporary...
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| x Frist Center for the Visual Arts |
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Art Gallery |
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is an art museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
The museum is housed in what used to be the main post office designed by Marr & Holman Architects for the city of Nashville, which had been built in 1933-34 near Union...
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| x Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine...
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| x Seattle Asian Art Museum |
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The Seattle Asian Art Museum is a museum of Asian art located inside Volunteer Park on Seattle, Washington USA's Capitol Hill. Part of the Seattle Art Museum, SAAM occupies the 1933 Art Moderne building which was originally home to the Seattle Art...
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| x Regina Gouger Miller Gallery | Art Gallery |
The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon is a contemporary art gallery open to the public, on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon has sought to support the creation, understanding,...
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| x Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria |
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Art Gallery |
The Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria is the Italian national paintings collection of Umbria, housed in the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia, in central Italy. Its collection comprises the greatest representation of the Umbrian School of painting, ranging...
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| x Denver Art Museum |
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Art Gallery | 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy |
The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 68,000 works from across the world.
The museum...
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| x Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive |
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is associated with the University of California at Berkeley. The director is Lawrence Rinder who was appointed in 2008.
The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the...
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| x Museum of Fine Arts |
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Art Gallery |
The Museum of Fine Arts (Hungarian: Szépművészeti Múzeum [ˈse̝ːpmyːve̝ːsɛti ˈmuːzeum]) is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art.
It was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclectic...
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| x National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo | Art Gallery |
The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art (東京国立近代美術館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting contemporary Japanese art.
This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT ...
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| x The Renaissance Society | Art Gallery |
The Renaissance Society is a non-collecting contemporary art museum in Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the campus of the University of Chicago, although it is a fully separate entity.
The Renaissance Society is a non-collecting museum founded in...
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| x Walker Art Gallery |
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Art Gallery | 1877 |
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside of London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North" because...
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| x Walters Art Museum |
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Art Gallery |
The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters (1819–1894), who began serious...
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| x Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Art Gallery | 465 Huntington Avenue |
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the...
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| x Victoria and Albert Museum |
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Art Gallery | Cromwell Road |
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A;), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in...
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| x Terra Museum, Chicago | Art Gallery |
The Terra Museum of American Art was an art museum founded by Daniel J. Terra in Evanston, Illinois in 1980. The museum was relocated to Chicago in 1987. Charged by the Terra Foundation for the Arts, now known as the Terra Foundation for American...
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| x The Power Plant |
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The Power Plant is one of Canada’s leading public galleries devoted to contemporary art, located in Toronto, Ontario at Harbourfront Centre. As a non-collecting art gallery, The Power Plant has presented new and recent work by numerous Canadian...
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| x Ayala Museum |
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Ayala Museum is an art and history museum located at the corner of Makati Avenue and De la Rosa Street in Makati City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is considered one of the most important private institutions of Philippine art and culture....
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| x Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami |
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) is a collecting museum located in the heart of downtown North Miami, Florida. MoCA offers visitors both temporary exhibitions and exhibitions of its collection. The 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m) structure was...
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| x The National Museum of Western Art |
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The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.
The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, central...
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| x Cincinnati Art Museum |
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Art Gallery | 953 Eden Park Dr. |
The Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies. Its collection of over 60,000 works make it one of the most comprehensive...
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| x Museu Picasso |
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The Museu Picasso (Catalan pronunciation: [muˈzɛw piˈkasu], "Picasso Museum"), located in Barcelona, Spain, houses one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. With more than 3,500 works by the...
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| x Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville |
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is a contemporary art museum in Jacksonville, Florida, funded and operated as a "cultural resource" of the University of North Florida. One of the largest contemporary art...
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