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Cafe in the museum Shuttlecock. The museum was built on the grounds of Oak Hall, the home of Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson (1841–1915). [2] When he died in 1915, his will provided that upon the deaths of his wife and daughter, the proceeds of his entire estate would go to purchasing artwork for public enjoyment.
In her book “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A History,” Kristie Wolferman reports that in 1933, 1934 and 1935, “Sickman sent crate after crate of Chinese art objects to the Nelson-Atkins.”
This list of museums in Kansas City, Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, with exhibits and tours of the multi-story cash vault. Irish Museum and Cultural Center located in Kansas City's Union Station. Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, local area history and natural sciences museum in a Beaux-Arts mansion.
Margaret L. Carney has served as director and curator of numerous museums, including the Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1986–1990; founding director and curator of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 1991–2002; [1] the Blair Museum of Lithophanes, Toledo, Ohio, 2004–2012; [2] before establishing the ...
Small Guan bowl on legs (some 3 inches across), with pronounced type 3 glaze crackle Mallet-shaped vase, Guan ware, 12th–13th century, with type 1 crackle. Guan ware or Kuan ware (Chinese: 官窯; pinyin: guān yáo; Wade–Giles: kuan-yao) is one of the Five Famous Kilns of Song dynasty China, making high-status stonewares, whose surface decoration relied heavily on crackled glaze, randomly ...
The luohan at the Royal Ontario Museum, in the Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art, was one of the first pieces to be included in the museum's Chinese art collection. [29] Although the piece dates back to the Liao dynasty (916–1125 CE), [ 32 ] its tri-colour glaze of green, amber, and cream, is reminiscent of elements from Tang dynasty ...
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