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The Rose Art Museum New England's museum of modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1961, the Rose is an educational and cultural component of Brandeis University that seeks to engage its communities in experiencing the significant art, artists, and ideas of our time. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Open to the public since May 1999, MASS MoCA is an extraordinary project to convert a 27-building historic mill complex in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts into a multi-disciplinary center for visual, performing and media arts. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home of the largest collection of American art in the world. Its holdings, over 37,500 works, represent the most inclusive collection of American art of any general museum today, reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious diversity. The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York was the first museum to devote its programs and collection entirely to the modern movement, and the quality and diversity of the Museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art As one of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art, SFMOMA has had an active Web presence for nearly five years (a very long time, when measured in Internet time). Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art LACMA's permanent collection includes more than 100,000 important works of art, from ancient times to the present. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC The Hirshhorn has one of the most comprehensive collections of modern sculpture in the United States or abroad. The collection's other strengths include contemporary art, European painting since World War II and American painting since the late l9th century. Denver Art Museum Over the next several years, the Denver Art Museum will be engaged in the process of expanding its existing facility. Not since the opening of its present building in 1971 will the Museum change and grow in such a significant way. | |||