Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum — DAM is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. The museum is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and its other collections of more than 68,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world.

History of the museum

Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costume, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artists' books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown. Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance art, music concerts, or poetry readings.

Types of galleries

The term is used for both public galleries, which are non-profit or publicly owned museums that display selected collections of art. On the other hand, private galleries refers to the commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However, both types of gallery may host traveling exhibits or temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.

Art Museum (Ivano-Frankivsk)

Art Museum Prycarpattya (Ukrainian: Музей мистецтв Прикрапаття) is a regional art museum that is located in the Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary in Ivano-Frankivsk. It has one of the best collection of the local religious art.

It is the only art museum in the region and specialized in studying works of local artists and ancient art.

The museum was established in 1980 and replaced the museum of geology of the city's Institute of Oil and Gas. It possesses a 15,000 item collection.

The most important are exhibitions of the "Religious art of Galicia in 15th-20th centuries" and baroque sculptures of Johann-George Pinzel.

The museum has two branches:

Collection

At the end of 2000s collection accounted for some 15,000 samples which include unique benchmarks of Galician iconography and baroque sculpture, particularly six sculptures of Pinzel, and classical works of western Ukrainian painting Kornylo Ustyianovych, Ivan Trush, Yulian Pankevych, Yaroslav Pstrak, Oleksa Novakivsky, Osyp Sorokhtei, Olena Kulchytska, and other works of various artists.

Denver

Denver (officially, The City and County of Denver) (/ˈdɛnvər/; Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe') is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of 2014, Denver is also the most populous county in Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5,280 ft or 1,610 m) above sea level, making it one of the highest major cities in the United States. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.

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