Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works, Virginia State Capitol, Aluminaut, Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Monumental Church, Virginia Historical Society, Science Museum of Virginia, Agecroft Hall, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Virginia Aviation Museum, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Maymont Park, Executive Mansion, John Marshall House, Children's Museum of Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Valentine Richmond History Center, Hull Street Station, Wickham House, Wilton House Museum, Branch House, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, First Freedom Center. Excerpt: The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or VMFA, is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, while private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support. Admission itself is free (except for special exhibits). It is one of the first museums in the American South to be operated by state funds. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, together with the adjacent Virginia Historical Society, anchor the eponymous "Museum District" of Richmond (alternatively known as "West of Boulevard"). The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has its origins in a 1919 donation of 50 paintings to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Judge and prominent Virginian John Barton Payne. Payne, in collaboration with Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard and the Federal Works Projects Administration secured federal funding to augment state funding for the museum in 1932. Eventually, a site was chosen on Richmond's Boulevard. The site was toward the corner of a contiguous six-block tract of land which was then being used as an American Civil War vete...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Museums in Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works. To get started finding Museums in Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Museums in Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works, Virginia State Capitol, Aluminaut, Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Monumental Church, Virginia Historical Society, Science Museum of Virginia, Agecroft Hall, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Virginia Aviation Museum, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Maymont Park, Executive Mansion, John Marshall House, Children's Museum of Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Valentine Richmond History Center, Hull Street Station, Wickham House, Wilton House Museum, Branch House, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, First Freedom Center. Excerpt: The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or VMFA, is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, while private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support. Admission itself is free (except for special exhibits). It is one of the first museums in the American South to be operated by state funds. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, together with the adjacent Virginia Historical Society, anchor the eponymous "Museum District" of Richmond (alternatively known as "West of Boulevard"). The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has its origins in a 1919 donation of 50 paintings to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Judge and prominent Virginian John Barton Payne. Payne, in collaboration with Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard and the Federal Works Projects Administration secured federal funding to augment state funding for the museum in 1932. Eventually, a site was chosen on Richmond's Boulevard. The site was toward the corner of a contiguous six-block tract of land which was then being used as an American Civil War vete...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Museums in Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works. To get started finding Museums in Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia House, Museum of the Confederacy, Tredegar Iron Works, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.