Erie Art Museum

Erie Art Museum

Erie Art Museum is an art museum in Erie, Pennsylvania with a collection of over 5,000 objects, including American ceramics, Tibetan paintings, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and many other categories. The museum hosts 18 to 20 visiting exhibits annually and shares parts of its collection with national and international partners through traveling exhibits.

The museum is situated on lower State Street in the historic U.S. Customs House, a Greek Revival building constructed in 1837 of Vermont marble. [ [http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/United_States/photo673499.htm TrekEarth] ]

The museum publishes "EArtscope Magazine" bimonthly on its main website.

The museum has hosted an annual blues and jazz music festival at Frontier Park since 1992. [ [http://www.erieartmuseum.org/information/eArtscopejj07.pdf EArtscope Magazine, June-July 2007] ]

History

The Art Club of Erie was established in 1898 and met in the then-new Erie Library on Perry Square in downtown Erie. The Art Club moved to the Watson-Curtze Mansion in the 1940s. In 1956, the club raised money and found a home of its own in the Wood-Morrison House, adjacent to the Curtze Mansion. The new place was soon known as the Erie Art Center and had a professional director by 1968. The center became the Erie Art Museum in 1980 when it moved to the Old Custom House on State Street. The Ashby Printing Company building was purchased the same year and became the museum's annex. Erie Art Museum, history [http://www.erieartmuseum.org/information/history/history.html] ]

In 1992, the Erie Art Museum became a part of the Discovery Square corporation, which invested $5 million in the development of a city block of museums, including the creation of the expERIEence Children's Museum in 1995 and the renovation and expansion of the Erie Art Museum and the Erie County History Center. Current plans are for the History Center to grow from convert|2000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on to convert|14000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on, and the Art Museum to grow from convert|4000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on to convert|16000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on. [ [http://www.goerie.com/erie2001/discovery_square_funding_next_.html Guerriero, John, Discovery Square Funding Next on List, Erie Times-News] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.erieartmuseum.org/ Erie Art Museum website]


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