Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers with a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2007 that added . The DIA collection is regarded as among the top six museums in the United States with an encyclopedic collection which spans the globe from ancient Egyptian and European works to contemporary art. Its art collection is valued in billions of dollars, up to $8.1 billion USD according to a 2014 appraisal. The DIA campus is located in Detroit's Cultural Center Historic District, about north of the downtown area, across from the Detroit Public Library near Wayne State University.The museum building is highly regarded by architects. The original building, designed by Paul Philippe Cret, is flanked by north and south wings with the white marble as the main exterior material for the entire structure. The campus is part of the city's Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The museum's first painting was donated in 1883 and its collection consists of over 65,000 works. With about 677,500 visitors annually for 2015, the DIA is among the most visited art museums in the world. The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts major art exhibitions; it contains a 1,150-seat theatre designed by architect C. Howard Crane, a 380-seat hall for recitals and lectures, an art reference library, and a conservation services laboratory.
In 2023, readers of USA Today voted the Detroit Institute of Arts the No. 1 art museum in the United States. Provided by Wikipedia
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Masterpieces of German expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts /
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Photographs from Detroit collections : an exhibition inaugurating the Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography : the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 4-November 27, 1983.
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Art in Italy, 1600-1700 /
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Detroit after dark : photographs from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts /
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Catalogue of paintings in the permanent collection of the Detroit institute of arts of the city of Detroit.
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100 masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts /
Published 1985“…Detroit Institute of Arts…”
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Michigan's masterpieces : art from public collections /
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The fine art of wood : the Bohlen Collection / by Fike, Bonita, 1946-
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A museum on the verge : a socioeconomic history of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000 / by Abt, Jeffrey
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Flanders in the fifteenth century, art and civilization. : Catalogue of the exhibition, Masterpieces of Flemish art: Van Eyck to Bosch, Oct.-Dec. 1960 /
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The legacy of Albert Kahn. by Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish drawings and watercolors : sixteenth through eighteenth centuries /
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A check list of ancient, European, American and Canadian sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Woven splendor : five centuries of European tapestry in the Detroit Institute of Arts /
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An exhibition of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes : loaned by C. T. Loo & Co. [held at] the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, October 18 to November 10, 1940.
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The Rouge / by Kenna, Michael
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African masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts /
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Detroit collects African art : [exhibition], the Detroit Institute of Arts, April 21-May 29, 1977.
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Catalogue of Italian sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts /
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Selections from the James Marshall Plumer collection of oriental art : a memorial exhibition [held at] The Detroit Institute of Arts, March 6 through April 8, 1962.
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