Hood Museum of Art

Hood Museum of Art

The Hood Museum of Art is North America's oldest museum in continuous operation.Fact|date=September 2007 Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. [ [http://ask.dartmouth.edu/categories/misc/31.html Ask Dartmouth - Miscellaneous ] ] The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. [ [http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/about/museum/index.html About the Museum ] ] It houses both permanent collections and visiting exhibitions. The museum includes a store and is connected to a café. Beneath the museum is the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, which regularly has movie showings. It currently has over 65,000 objects in its possession.

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* [http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/ Hood Museum of Art] official website


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