Birmingham Museum of Art

Birmingham Museum of Art
Oscar Wells Memorial entrance to the museum
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EstablishedApril 1951
Location2000 Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd. North (formerly 8th Avenue North)
Birmingham, Alabama, US
Coordinates33°31′18.8″N 86°48′36.7″W / 33.521889°N 86.810194°W / 33.521889; -86.810194
TypeMunicipal art museum
DirectorGraham Boettcher
Websitewww.artsbma.org

The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. The museum is also home to some Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculptures,and decorative arts from the late 13th century to c. 1750.

Albert Bierstadt's Looking Down Yosemite Valley from 1865 is a highlight of the museum's collection of American paintings.

The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres (16,000 m2) in the heart of the city's cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight & Davis, and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993. The facility encompasses 180,000 square feet (17,000 m2), including an outdoor sculpture garden.

The museum is part of the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network, launched in 2021 by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation.[1]

  1. ^ "A New Museum Network Is Focusing On the Monuments Men's Long-Overlooked Postwar Cultural Contributions". Artnet News. 2021-06-17. Retrieved 2021-07-14.