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The Columbus Public Library and Reading Room was opened on March 4, 1873, in the reading room on the first floor of City Hall, with a collection of 1,500 books. [ 5 ] These included 1,200 from the Columbus Athenaeum (1853-1872), [ 6 ] 358 from Columbus's high school library, and 33 from its horticultural society. [ 7 ]
In 2007, King Features Syndicate donated its proof-sheet collection, consisting of over two million strips (a duplicate set was donated to Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection). [ 7 ] In June 2008, the collection of the International Museum of Cartoon Art (more than 200,000 originals with an estimated value of $20 million) was ...
The branch closed for the project two months later, on April 13, 2015. [17] [18] The 1991 addition was the focus of the renovation, [19] replacing the windowless east facade with two stories of windows overlooking Topiary Park. [20] 80 percent of the branch's collection was moved to storage, while the rest was relocated to other branches. [19]
In September 2018, the Pizzuti Collection, a museum in the Short North, was donated to the CMA, along with part of its collection. The museum opened as a part of the Columbus Museum of Art that year. [9] The museum and its Pizzuti Collection branch temporarily closed beginning in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10]
The museum primarily exhibits the Pizzuti family's collection, estimated in 2018 at about 2,400 works of contemporary art. [1] The three-story Pizzuti Collection building in the Short North was built in the 1920s and has 18,000 square feet (1,700 m 2). [1] [2] The museum displays temporary rotating exhibits of international artists. [2]
The judicial center features about 170 works of art between its interior, exterior, and grounds. The works, primarily by Ohio artists, were together valued at $935,000 around 2008. The collection includes Gavel, a massive gavel sculpture created in 2008 and installed in the south reflecting pool on the building's grounds. The sculpture is the ...
Franklinton branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling, a Buddhist temple reconstructed in 2022. Today, Franklinton is an urban neighborhood consisting of about 36,000 residents.
The Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center is a combination art gallery and teaching space, primarily for visual artists and crafters, in downtown Columbus, Ohio.It is a 38,500 square-foot space at 139 West Main Street, and is part of the city's Scioto Mile tourist district. [1]