Yellowstone Art Museum, Art museum in Billings, United States.
Yellowstone Art Museum is an art museum in Billings with several exhibition spaces showing contemporary and regional artwork. The collections feature different artistic styles and mediums created by artists connected to the Yellowstone Valley area.
The Yellowstone Art Center opened in October 1964 in the former Yellowstone County Jail, a red brick building erected in 1884 as the first act of the new county government, with a partial basement for storage and two upper floors of cell blocks; additions followed in 1916. In 1995 the center received the Montana Governor's Award for Service to the Arts, and a $6.2 million campaign funded a two-year renovation and new construction. It reopened in February 1998 as the Yellowstone Art Museum.
The museum regularly displays works by artists from the surrounding region and gives local creators space to show their work. You can see how the art scene of the Northern Plains has developed its own character over time.
The museum is open most days and gives you time to walk through the galleries at your own pace. Keep in mind that exhibitions change regularly, so check in advance what works are currently on display.
The Visible Vault opened in August 2010 at 505 North 26th Street, a converted warehouse funded partly by a $2.15 million challenge grant from the Charles M. Bair Family Trust. It lets visitors see stored works from a permanent collection of over 7,400 pieces, most of which would otherwise stay off the gallery walls.
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