Boise Art Museum

Local nameBoise Art Museum
LocationBoise, Idaho, United States

The Boise Art Museum is located at 670 Julia Davis Drive in Boise, Idaho, and is part of a series of public museums and cultural attractions in Julia Davis Park. It is the permanent home of a growing collection of contemporary realism, modern and contemporary ceramics, as well as the largest public collection of works by acclaimed Idaho outsider artist and bookmaker James Charles Castle. The museum also features major traveling exhibitions and installations throughout the year.

The museum began as the Boise Gallery of Art, opening in 1937 through a partnership between the Boise Art Association, the City of Boise and the Federal Works Progress Administration as a space for people living in the Boise area to see local artists, traveling exhibitions and artwork on loan. The museum's original Art Deco and Egyptian Revival building was renovated in 1972 and again in 1988 when the name was changed to the Boise Art Museum and the museum increased focus on the development of a permanent…

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View of the Boise art… @ CamEQ, Facade of Art Museum designed by CSHQA in 1996

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise_Art_Museum

Official Website http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/

Phone +1-208-345-8330

Coordinates 43°36'34.691" N -116°12'22.8" E

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