Established 2005 Director Jack Rasmussen Founded 2005 | Public transit access Tenleytown–AU | |
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Location 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20016 Similar Katzen Arts Center, Harold and Sylvia Greenber, Bender Arena, Kreeger Museum, George Washington University | ||
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The American University Museum is located within the Katzen Arts Center at the American University in Washington, DC.
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- Bridge of knots at american university museum katzen arts center
- Andrei molodkin crude exhibition trailer american university museum
- History and description
- AU Museums Permanent Collections
- Rotating Exhibitions
- Related links
- References
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History and description
The American University Museum consists of a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) museum and sculpture garden. The region’s largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum’s permanent collection highlights the holdings of the Katzen and Watkins collection. Rotating exhibitions emphasize regional, national, and international contemporary art.
AU Museum's Permanent Collections
The Katzen Collection is a private collection donated to the university by Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen in 2005. The collection includes more than 300 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures, focusing on Pop Art, Washington art, and glass sculpture. It also contains three large bronze sculptures by Nancy Graves.
The Watkins Collection included more than 4500 works of art, with an emphasis on art produced in the Washington area since the 1940s. The collection was created in 1945 as a memorial to C. Law Watkins, the former chair of the Department of Art at American University. Originally only 25 works, it has been augmented by later donations.
Rotating Exhibitions
Jack Rasmussen, the museum's curator, focuses on rotating exhibitions that emphasize regional, national, and contemporary art and artists. The Museum's Kunsthalle style planning ensures constantly changing exhibitions on all three levels of facility, with highly relevant, political, and sometimes provocative programming that mirrors Washington D.C. itself. Approximately 24 exhibitions are mounted annually across the museum's 44,000 square foot space.