Weisman Art Museum
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Weisman Art Museum is an
art museum at the
University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1934 as University Gallery, the museum was originally housed in an upper floor of the university's
Northrop Auditorium. In 1993, the museum moved to its current building, designed by the Canadian-born American architect
Frank Gehry, and renamed in honor of art collector and philanthropist Frederick R. Weisman. Widely known as a "modern art museum," its 20,000+ acquisitions include large collections of traditional Korean furniture and modern American Art, including collections of work by
Marsden Hartley,
Alfred Maurer,
Charles Biederman.
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