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Established | 1894 |
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Location | Brunswick, Maine |
Coordinates | 43°54′30″N 69°57′49″W / 43.90828°N 69.96371°W |
Type | Art Museum |
Director | Anne C. Goodyear, Frank H. Goodyear |
Architect | McKim, Mead, and White |
Owner | Bowdoin College |
Website | www |
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is an art museum located in Brunswick, Maine. Included on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum is located in a building on the campus of Bowdoin College designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White.
The Museum’s landmark Walker Art Building was commissioned for the College by Harriet and Sophia Walker in honor of their uncle, a Boston businessman who had supported the creation of the first small art gallery at Bowdoin in the mid-nineteenth century. Designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead, & White, the building was completed in 1894 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.[1] [2] At the entrance are a pair of Medici lion sculptures.