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| - Well worth a visit! To do this museum justice, you need to devote an entire day to it. Extensive permanent collection (no admission charge.)
Four separate buildings, connected by underground tunnels.
We very much enjoyed the look and feel of the new Jean-Noel Desmarius Pavilion.
Excellent retrospective on Pop Artist Tom Wesselman. His 3-dimensional metal art was tres cool -- steel and aluminun cut-out figures, all the more impressive because Wesselman had to do it all mechanically, BEFORE the technology of lasers was available. (Special exhibit fees of $12 apply to shows like this.)
Back to the permanent collection: Impressive body of Western Art, including works by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Renoir, Courbet, etc, We had fun looking around their decorative arts and design collection as well. Loved their wooden dresser in the shape of a giant hand grenade. Awesome.
Check out their gift shop -- crazy/cool/ imaginative stuff in there.
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