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Art Museum in Brunswick, Maine
The
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
is an art museum located in
Brunswick, Maine
. Included on the
National Register of Historic Places
, the museum is located in a building on the campus of
Bowdoin College
designed by the architectural firm
McKim, Mead, and White
.
The Museum’s landmark Walker Art Building was commissioned for the College by Harriet and Sophia Walker in honor of their uncle, a Boston businessman who had supported the creation of the first small art gallery at Bowdoin in the mid-nineteenth century. Designed by
Charles Follen McKim
of
McKim, Mead, & White
, the building was completed in 1894 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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At the entrance are a pair of
Medici lion
sculptures.
History
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The museum's collection originated from separate donations of art from
James Bowdoin III
in 1811 and 1826. Having been housed in a number of different locations during its history, the museum found a permanent home in the Walker Art Building in 1894. While the building had been renovated once in 1974, the $20.8 million renovation by architects
Machado and Silvetti Associates
of
Boston
that finished in 2007 received a great deal of publicity for its creation of a new modern entrance to the museum while preserving the structural integrity of the original building.
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Media related to
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
at Wikimedia Commons
