![]() ![]() It has a concrete foundation, walls of limestone and concrete and a truncated copper hipped roof. Open from 10 to 5 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 10 to 9 on Thursday, the 1931 museum building was designed in the Second Renaissance Revival style by Columbus architects Richards, McCarty and Bulford. It is committed to showing contemporary art, folk art, glass and photography of our time. Located at 408 East Broad Street, the museum also houses paintings by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Henry Matisse, Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Columbus Museum of Art, which was founded in 1878 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, features a permanent collection of outstanding late 19th and early 20th century American and European modern works of art, including the largest collections of works by Columbus born artists Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Elijah Pierce and George Bellows. ![]() Masks are required and timed tickets too. There are folding chairs you can use to set with pieces for awhile. The staff was very helpful with my college aged daughter's assignment for her art class. You pay inside or spend $5 in the museum for a voucher. I had some disappointed little people about that one.parking is in a lot behind the museum and is $5. Due to COVID restrictions the room designed especially for children was closed. ![]() The kids options for drawing connections to the pieces and create their own was hindered by so many spaces being used in that way. I was disappointed this time when we went that the board with the paper squares that connect to other people's art was being used for propaganda. It is wonderful how they have places set up for folks to express their art with various media. My favorite thing about this museum is the interactions they offer for kids. You can see the entire collection in 2-3 hours. While I have been to lots of museums of much larger proportions since, this museum still has lots to offer. This was the first museum I went to that was of a larger size than a local community gallery. ![]()
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