| The RISD
Museum of Art
224 Benefit Street enter through the Chace Center at 20 N. Main
Street
Tues-Sun 10-5
401 454-6500
www.risdmuseum.org
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DESCRIPTION
The RISD Museum of Art was founded as part of Rhode Island School
of Design in 1877. Its permanent collection of more than 84,000
objects encompasses painting, sculpture, decorative arts, costume,
furniture, and other works of art from nearly every part of the
world and every era, including objects from Ancient Egypt, Greece,
and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas,
up to the latest in contemporary art.
The Museum's collection, including textiles, works
on paper, ceramics, glass and furniture, is displayed in 45 galleries
on three floors, tracing the history of art from antiquity to the
21st century.
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