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Taubman Museum of Art. The Taubman Museum of Art, formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia, is an art museum in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, United States. [1] Formally established in 1951, the museum was housed in several locations around Roanoke before moving in 2008 to its current home, a contemporary architecture building designed by Randall Stout.
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art: Virginia Beach: Virginia Beach: Tidewater/Hampton Roads: Art: Focuses on 20th-century art with changing exhibitions of American & international artists. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Richmond: Richmond: Central: Art: Encyclopedic collection of 33,000 works of art from almost every major world culture
Pages in category "Museums in Roanoke, Virginia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Taubman Museum of Art; V. Virginia Museum of ...
Opened in January 2004, the museum is housed in a former Norfolk & Western Railway passenger train station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. Originally built in 1905, the building was renovated in 1949 by industrial designer Raymond Loewy , and is one of three contributing structures to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District ...
The art museum features 19th and 20th century American art, contemporary and modern art, decorative arts, and works on paper. [116] The 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m 2 ) facility was designed by Los Angeles-based architect Randall Stout , who earlier in his career worked under Frank Gehry . [ 113 ]
The museum was chartered in January 1970 as the first science museum in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Originally housed in the 400 square foot basement of Cherry Hill, a multi-cultural center in South Roanoke, it moved in 1976 to the abandoned Tinker Creek School, a 3,000 square-foot building built during World War I. [3] In 1983 the museum moved into the Center in the Square, [4] a renovated ...
In November 1985, a flood damaged the museum and much of its collection. [3] In April 1986, the museum was re-opened at the former Norfolk & Western Railway Freight Station in downtown Roanoke as the Virginia Museum of Transportation, recognized by the General Assembly of Virginia as the Commonwealth's official transportation museum.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio, also known as Belmont, is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 224 Washington Street in Falmouth, Virginia.This much-altered 18th-century house was the home and studio of the popular American artist Gari Melchers (1860–1932) from 1916 until his death.