Established | 1879; in present location since 1893 |
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Location | 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, USA |
Visitors | 1,846,889 (2009)[1]
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Director | Douglas Druick |
Website | www.artic.edu/aic |
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an art museum[2] in Grant Park, Chicago. The Art Institute owns one of the world's best collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. It also owns important American art, Old Masters, European and American decorative arts, Asian art and modern and contemporary art. The museum is linked with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. James Cuno is its Director and President. Its buildings have one million square feet (92,903,040 m2) of space. It is the second largest art museum in the United States. Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has more space.[3]
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