Maybe some locals can visit this museum and give us your critique.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/arts/design/alice-walton-on-her-crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1347885794-DLXXyTgul4QAtb6jM5EEOg&Ms. Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — the first major institution in 50 years dedicated to the vast spectrum of American art, to be housed in a building more than twice the size of the current Whitney Museum of American Art — seeks to bring high art to middle America here in this town of 35,000 that is best known as the home of Wal-Mart.
The 201,000-square-foot museum was designed by the Boston architect Moshe Safdie for a site around two ponds on 120 acres of former Walton family land. Named for the nearby Crystal Spring, the museum will display top-flight works by American masters from the Colonial era to the present, with the largest concentrations coming from the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the collection — currently about 600 paintings and sculptures — is still small by the standards of big museums, it is growing at a steady clip.
Along with family approval of the project there has been some financial help. Last month Crystal Bridges announced that the Walton Family Foundation had pledged $800 million to the institution for an operating endowment, acquisitions and future capital improvements, a gift that is believed to be one of the largest ever to an American museum.
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Topic: Bentonville, AR - World-class art museum opening Nov 11, 2012 (Read 501 times)