Toledo Museum of Art

About Toledo Museum of Art

The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. With 45 galleries, it covers 280,000 square feet (26,000 m2) and is currently in the midst of a massive multiyear expansion plan to its 40-acre (16 ha) campus. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its current location, a Greek Revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912. The main building was expanded twice, in the 1920s and 1930s. Other buildings were added in the 1990s and 2006. The museum's main building consists of 4+1⁄2 acres (18,000 m2) of floor space on two levels. Features include fifteen classroom studios, a 1,750-seat Peristyle concert hall, a 176-seat lecture hall, a café and gift shop. The museum averages some 380,000 visitors per year and, in 2010, was voted America's favorite museum by the readers of the visual arts website Modern Art Notes.

The Toledo Museum of Art's eleventh and current director is Adam M. Levine.

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Founded
1901
Opened
1912
Annual visitors
340K
340,000
Architect
Frank Gehry, Kazuyo Sejima
Director
Adam M. Levine

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  2. The Interior of David’s Studio at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, Paris02The Interior of David’s Studio at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, ParisMathieu Cochereau · Public domain
  3. Aronia melanocarpa berries outside the Toledo Museum of Art03Aronia melanocarpa berries outside the Toledo Museum of ArtJason Zhang · CC BY-SA 3.0
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