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In 1995, the Missoula Museum of the Arts became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. [ 6 ] In 2006, the newly re-designed building, funded by a $5.3 million capital campaign, fused the 100-year-old Carnegie Library building with a contemporary addition. [ 7 ]
Missoula is home to a variety of museums and galleries with most located in the downtown and university districts. The Montana Museum of Art & Culture (MMAC), based at the University of Montana and formerly known as the Museum of Fine Arts, is one Montana's oldest cultural reserves with its permanent collection of more than 10,000 original works begun in 1894.
The Montana Museum of Art & Culture was established shortly after the founding of the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. The year was 1895 and the state's flagship university, established in 1893, had its first President, Oscar J. Craig, and fifty enrolled students.
[155] [v] Walt Disney World expanded with the opening of Epcot Center in 1982; Walt Disney's vision of a functional city was replaced by a park more akin to a permanent world's fair. [157] In 2009, the Walt Disney Family Museum, designed by Disney's daughter Diane and her son Walter E. D. Miller, opened in the Presidio of San Francisco. [158]
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Architectural styles have come and gone, and today Missoula is home to over 60 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places beginning with the A.J. Gibson designed County Courthouse constructed in 1908 and added to the list in 1976 with the Post Office, Wilma Theatre and Higgin's Block all added a couple years later.
Eyvind Earle was born in New York on April 26, 1916 to General Ferdinand Pinney (F.P.) Earle and Charlotte Kristine Herman, F.P.'s fourth wife. [5] The family moved to Hollywood in 1918, where F.P. worked as a film director and Earle's mother was a piano teacher. [6]
The Missoula Carnegie Library opened on Jan 13, 1903 on 335 N. Pattee St. and its building is now part of the Missoula Art Museum. The main library is located at 455 E. Main St., Missoula (59802-4799). It includes a café, a shop, and Missoula Community Access Television’s (MCAT) high-tech production studio. the University of Montana Living Lab.