Established | 1961 |
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Location | 500 East Peabody Drive Champaign, Illinois |
Coordinates | 40°06′07″N 88°13′53″W / 40.101973°N 88.231373°W |
Type | Art museum |
Collection size | 11,000 objects |
Architect | Ambrose Richardson |
Public transit access | MTD |
Website | kam |
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 m2) of space devoted to all periods of art, dating from ancient Egypt to contemporary photography. The museum's collection of more than 11,000 objects can be accessed online and includes specializations in 20th-century art, Asian art, and pre-Columbian art, particularly works from the Andes.
In addition to collection galleries, the museum features 6 to 10 special exhibitions each year from national and international museum collections as well as exhibitions of art by contemporary artists, faculty and graduate and undergraduate students .[1]