- Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Infobox Museum
name = Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
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latitude = 44.962
longitude = -89.613
established = 1976
dissolved =
location =Wausau, Wisconsin
type =Art museum
visitors =
director = Kathy Kelsey Foleycite web|url = http://www.lywam.org/contactus/index.cfm?room=stafflist
title = Woodson Art Museum: Staff List]
curator = Andrew McGivern
publictransit =
website = [http://www.lywam.org/ www.lywam.org] The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is located inWausau, Wisconsin . It is best known for its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition, which exhibits contemporary artistic representations of birds. The annual exhibition has been held beginning the week afterLabor Day since the museum's founding in 1976. cite web | url = http://www.lywam.org/birdsinart/index.cfm?room=introduction | title = Birds in Art: Introduction] The museum stands on a four acre estate in a 1931 English Tudor style house previously owned by Alice Woodson Forester and John E. Forester. The Foresters donated their home in 1973 and the museum opened in September 1976. Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
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