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  2. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit 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.

  3. Cedarhurst Center for the Arts - Wikipedia

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    Cedarhurst Center for the Arts is a visual and performing arts institution in Mount Vernon, Illinois.Located on a 80-acre campus, it offers classes in art education, drawing and painting, ceramics and stained glass, knitting and quilting, and hosts concerts and community events.

  4. Miró's Chicago - Wikipedia

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    This bronze model of Miró's Chicago (pictured below) is in the Milwaukee Art Museum collection. In 1979, the first female Mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne, agreed to find funds for the sculpture assuming that another 50% could be found elsewhere. After the commitment of several institutions, foundations and individuals, construction began with ...

  5. Lists of museums - Wikipedia

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    The estimated total number of museums worldwide is around 104,000. Museum institutions are not evenly distributed globally, with Western Europe and North America housing around 61% of museums as of March 2021. [2] The International Council of Museums comprises approximately 30,000 members in 137 countries.

  6. Illinois State Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois State Museum was founded on May 25, 1877, as a showcase within the sixth Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, which was completed at that time. Amos Henry Worthen was first curator. As the state's government grew, the museum collection was moved from the Capitol Building to the newly constructed Centennial Building, now known as ...

  7. Krannert Art Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Krannert Art Museum (KAM) is a fine art museum located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States. It has 48,000 square feet (4,500 m 2 ) of space devoted to all periods of art, dating from ancient Egypt to contemporary photography.

  8. List of painters in the Art Institute of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The entire collection houses over 300,000 objects, thousands of which are on view at any given time, and only 2,382 of these are paintings. In the following list, the painter's name is followed by the number of their paintings in the collection, with a link to all of their works available on the Artic website.

  9. Miriam McKinnie - Wikipedia

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    Miriam McKinnie's mural study for the post office in Forest Park, Illinois (1939) Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.

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