Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Art museum in downtown Oklahoma City, United States.
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is an art museum housing American and European works spread across multiple floors in a modern building. The galleries display paintings, sculptures, and glass installations arranged by period and style throughout the space.
The museum traces its origins to the Oklahoma Art League and Art Renaissance Club and to a Works Progress Administration Experimental Gallery; it incorporated as a private institution on May 18, 1945. In 1989 the Oklahoma Art Center and the Oklahoma Museum of Art merged, prompted by the 1980s oil downturn. A $14.5 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation helped raise $40 million in private funds, and the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center opened in March 2002.
The museum's name traces to two predecessors: the Oklahoma Art Center, grown from a WPA Experimental Gallery, and the Oklahoma Museum of Art, merged in 1989. Its film theater screens foreign, independent and classic films weekly, and a restaurant serves visitors. The atrium holds the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower of Chihuly glass.
The museum occupies the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center, entered under the flat canopy on the stone facade; the Chihuly glass tower rises in the atrium just inside. A theater shows foreign, independent and classic films weekly, and a restaurant is on site. The building sits in downtown Oklahoma City at coordinates 35.46968, -97.52040.
The atrium holds Dale Chihuly's 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower, part of a glass collection among the most comprehensive in the world. The museum opened its Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in March 2002, funded entirely by $40 million in private money, including a $14.5 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
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