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Triton College sits on a 110-acre (45 ha) campus that features electronic classrooms, labs, sports facilities, a library and bookstore, an art gallery and performing arts center, botanical gardens and greenhouses, culinary arts program restaurant and bistro, and the Cernan Earth and Space Center, which is a public planetarium.
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The Cernan Earth and Space Center is a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in the Chicago suburb of RiverIt is named for astronaut Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), who flew aboard the Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 missions and, as commander of Apollo 17, was the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the Moon.
Access to the building was acquired by the city from the state through a 99-year lease at a cost of $1/year. It was transformed into an arts center starting in 1976, with the help of a $1.4 million grant from the US Department of Commerce , with the official opening on June 11, 1978.
The school was founded in 1924 [2] as Hal Cooper's School of Advertisement.It later became known as the Hal H. Cooper School of Art. [4] ( Hal Cooper moved on to became president of the American Society of Cartoonists in 1948, founded the Aurora School of Art in 1951, and was headmaster of another Hal H. Cooper School of Art in Aurora, Illinois, in 1955.) [5]
The museum was founded in 1965 in San Jose, California, by rancher, lawyer and art patron W. Robert Morgan and his wife June. [3] [4] It is the oldest non-university museum in Santa Clara County. Less than two years after its opening, the Triton Museum moved to its current location in Santa Clara, California. [4]
The current school logo was created in 1997 by George Tscherny for its 50th anniversary, [16] and redesigned in 2013. [6] In 2019 the school began the process of converting to nonprofit, with the SVA alumni organization (which is already an IRS tax-exempt entity) planning to purchase the school from its owners, who are retiring. [17]
Another prominent art museum in the city is the Wexner Center for the Arts, a contemporary art gallery and research facility operated by the Ohio State University. The Ohio History Connection is headquartered in Columbus, with its flagship museum, the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2 ) Ohio History Center , 4 mi (6.4 km) north of downtown.