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Art Institute ranked top U.S. museum
The Art Institute of Chicago has been voted the top museum in the U.S. and the third most popular museum in the world, according to a ranking by the travel site Trip Advisor.
The ranking, called the Travelers' Choice Attractions awards, "were determined based on the quality and quantity of traveler reviews of attractions, featured on TripAdvisor, in each of the categories," Trip Advisor said in a statement.
The Art Institute of Chicago's exhibits include one on Impressionism and fashion that the museum hopes will be its big draw of the year. The exhibit, "Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity," has seen crowds of nearly a half-million each at Paris' Musee d'Orsay, where it debuted, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The museum also introduced a new Tours app this year, which contains dozens of tours that guide visitors through the museum, from its marquee works to its lesser-known collections.
While the Art Institute remains extremely popular, the museum drew some criticism last year after Crain's reported that it passed on housing the entire archive of Frank Lloyd Wright. His works will move from their Taliesin, Ariz.-foundation headquarters to the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University's Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, both in New York.
(Editor's note: The story has been updated to reflect that the Art Institute's Impressionism exhibit has already opened.)
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One of the two lion statues (Kemeys, bronze 1893) flanking the Institute's main entrances
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| Established | 1879; in present location since 1893 |
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| Location | 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 USA |
| Visitors |
1,846,889 (2009)[1]
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| Director | Douglas Druick |
| Public transit access | CTA Bus routes: (6 and 28 line) 'L' and Subway stations: Adams-Wabash: Brown Line Green Line Orange Line Pink Line Purple Line Jackson-State: Red Line Jackson-Dearborn(at Dearborn Street): Blue Line Metra Train: Van Buren Street Station |
| Website | artic.edu |
in Chicago's Grant Park. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection. Its holdings also include American art, Old Masters, European and American decorative arts, Asian art, modern andcontemporary art, and architecture and industrial and graphic design. In addition, it houses the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries.
Tracing its history to a free art school and gallery founded in 1866, the museum is located at 111 South Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. It is associated with theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago and is overseen by Director and President Douglas Druick.[2] At one million square feet, it is the second largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[3]
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