DailyCelestialChallenge-Wednesday-Structures/The Weisman Art Museum

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The Weisman Art Museum (Weisman Art Museum or WAM), is the art museum of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota). It was founded in 1934 as a university museum and in 1993, with the patronage of Frederic R. Weisman, the new building designed by architect Frank Gehry was inaugurated.

His collection houses more than 20,000 works by contemporary American artists, native ceramics and Korean furniture.

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The building designed by the architect Frank Gehry1 was inaugurated in 1993.

It is located on the university campus, on the Mississippi River east of the Washington Avenue Bridge. The building has two differentiated facades depending on where it is observed. From the campus you can see a brick façade in the style of the other buildings on the property and from the other side you can see the exuberance of curved and angular steel shapes that represent the abstraction of a waterfall and a fish.

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In 2009, the extension work was also started by Gehry, which was inaugurated on October 2, 2011. Five new rooms were added that allowed the museum to exhibit more works from its collection. One of the new rooms houses the most outstanding pieces of ceramics, two rooms are dedicated to works of modern American art, another exhibits the collection of photographs, drawings and prints and the last one is dedicated to experimental collaborations between artists, university students and community.

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