Haggin Museum, Art museum in Victory Park, Stockton, US
The Haggin Museum is an art museum in Victory Park that displays European paintings, American landscapes, and collections related to local history. Its galleries also feature rooms with Victorian furnishings that show how people of that period furnished their homes.
The San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society formed in 1928 with the aim of establishing a museum. Stockton native Robert McKee and his wife Eila Haggin McKee gave $30,000 on condition that it be named for her father, Louis Terah Haggin, and house her parents' art collection. The Louis Terah Haggin Memorial Galleries opened on 14 June 1931, Flag Day. Additions followed in 1939, 1949 and 1976.
The museum holds the largest public collection of original works by illustrator J. C. Leyendecker in the United States, much of it donated by the artist's sister. A gallery dedicated to this collection opened in 2017 after a $2.5 million renovation of the museum's galleries.
The museum is located in Victory Park and is easy to reach on foot or by car. The galleries are arranged in a logical way, making it straightforward to walk through the different sections at your own pace.
The museum preserves the Jennie Hunter Rooms, where Victorian furnishings and objects are arranged exactly as the original donor left them. These rooms offer a rare window into the personal life and tastes of a wealthy ranching family from the early 1900s.
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