The Andy Warhol Museum

The Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum in 2020
The Andy Warhol Museum is located in Pittsburgh
The Andy Warhol Museum
Location within Pittsburgh
EstablishedMay 13, 1994
Location117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40°26′54″N 80°00′09″W / 40.4484°N 80.0024°W / 40.4484; -80.0024
TypeArt museum
Visitors106,396 (2010)
DirectorPatrick Moore[1]
CuratorJosé Carlos Diaz[2]
Websitewarhol.org
Official nameAndy Warhol Museum (Volkwein's, Frick & Lindsay Building)
Designated2000[3]

The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist.[4] The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.

The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA).[5]

Warhol Self Portrait Exhibit in 2010

The museum is located in an 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) facility on seven floors. Containing 17 galleries, the museum features 900 paintings, close to 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, 77 sculptures, 4,000 photographs, and over 4,350 Warhol films and videotaped works. Its most recent operating budget (2010) was $6.1 million. In addition to its Pittsburgh location the museum has sponsored 56 traveling exhibits that have attracted close to nine million visitors in 153 venues worldwide since 1996.[6]

  1. ^ "Patrick Moore named new Warhol Museum director".
  2. ^ "Andy Warhol Museum Shuffles Operations Staff, Names New Chief Curator". 11 May 2017.
  3. ^ Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009 (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference nyt1995 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ The Warhol - Museum Info Archived 2008-10-26 at the Wayback Machine from the museum's website
  6. ^ "Welcome". Archived from the original on September 9, 2012.