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The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (its name until 1978), [3] it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio. The museum collects and exhibits American and European modern and contemporary art, folk art, glass art, and ...
The precursor was the University Gallery of Fine Art which was curated by the university's fine art director. [2] In 1970, under Director Betty Collings' leadership, the gallery began hosting major contemporary artists and acquiring the collection that would become the Wexner Center as a response to student grievances about the Kent State shootings. [3]
This is a list of museums in Columbus, Ohio and non-profit and university art galleries. The city's first museum was the Walcutt Museum, opened July 1851. At its opening, the museum had about six wax figures and a few paintings. It grew to have about 20 wax figures, several hundred animal specimens, and about 100 quality oil paintings. [1]
Nov 20, 2023; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Workers hang drywall inside the new Franklin County Crisis Care Center. Columbus City Council will vote Monday evening on an ordinance that would provide $4.5 ...
Gov. Mike DeWine tours the new Central Ohio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital on May 22, 2024 on Columbus' West Side at 2200 W. Broad St. The hospital will welcome staff and patients beginning in ...
Southern Ohio Museum: Portsmouth Scioto Southwest Art Focus on Ohio and regional art, Clarence Holbrook Carter and over 10,000 prehistoric Native American objects [233] Spiegel Grove: Fremont Sandusky Northeast Historic house Also known as Rutherford B. Hayes Home, part of Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center: Spirit of 76 Museum Wellington ...
Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti is a museum for contemporary art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It has been part of the Columbus Museum of Art since September 2018. The three-story gallery is located in the Short North and Victorian Village neighborhoods, on the eastern edge of Goodale Park. Its exhibits rotate, featuring artists from ...