Triple Treat: Museum Tour
• The Minneapolis Institute of Art was designed by the preeminent New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, and the original building opened its doors in 1915. Their permanent collection has grown from 800 works of art to around 80,000 objects.
• Opened in April 2005, the new Walker Art Center (formally established in 1927) highlights ideas from different disciplines and art forms and is seen as a model for cultural institutions of the future. A key aspect of the design is a "town square," a sequence of spaces that draws people for informal conversation and interactive learning.
• Adjacent to the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden opened in 1988 and was immediately heralded by the New York Times as "the finest new outdoor space in the country for displaying sculpture." The Garden's centerpiece and most popular work is by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.
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• The founders of the Goldstein Museum of Design, educators and art collectors (and sisters) Harriet and Vetta Goldstein, worked with a design philosophy that stressed the inter-relationships between aesthetics and lifestyle: "As we surround ourselves with beauty, art actually becomes a part of our life and personality."
• The Goldstein Museum's graphic design collection includes early twentieth-century journals such as PM and A-D, the complete set of Emigre magazine from the late twentieth-century, and issues of Push Pin Graphic, Octavo: A Journal of Typography and News of the Whirled.
• Some of the wood type that will be used for the hands-on letterpress are well over a century old and on loan from the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Wisconsin.
For more info, or to sign up for one of these activities when you register, visit http://ucda.com/activities10.lasso.
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