Established | 1969 |
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Location | 110 South Market Street, San Jose, California 95113 United States |
Type | Art museum |
Accreditation | American Association of Museums |
Collections | contemporary and modern art |
Collection size | 2,600 (2019) |
Director | Susan Sayre Batton |
Curator | Lauren Schell Dickens |
Architect | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (1991 addition) |
Public transit access | Santa Clara station (VTA) San Jose Diridon station |
Website | sjmusart |
Civic Art Gallery | |
Location | San Jose, California |
Coordinates | 37°20′01″N 121°53′21″W / 37.33361°N 121.88917°W |
Built | 1892 |
Architect | Willoughby J. Edbrooke |
Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 73000453 |
Added to NRHP | January 29, 1973 |
The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1969, the museum holds a permanent collection with an emphasis on West Coast artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is located at Circle of Palms Plaza, beside Plaza de César Chávez. A member of North American Reciprocal Museums, SJMA has received several awards from the American Alliance of Museums.