This is Part 9 of 10 on my series on Art Museums and Historical Places that Macrine(RIP) and I had visited.
Kansas
City has three art museums. Macrine( RIP) and I had visited only one.
This was the time when we were residents of Platte Woods, Missouri- a
suburb of Kansas City, Missouri (1965-1969). Our favorite museum is The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art.
In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building number one on its list of "The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels" which considered candidates from around the globe.
The museum originates from two separate grants, one by publisher William Rockhill Nelson (1841-1915) and another by school teacher and heiress Mary McAfee Atkins (1836-1911), both aimed to establish a new museum of art in Kansas City.
Instead of creating two separate institutions, the trustees decided to
join forces and found a single major museum, initially named The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts.
The museum’s imposing neoclassical-style building, designed by Wight & Wight Architects, opened to the public on December 1, 1933.
Like many other American museums founded in the same period, the Nelson-Atkins is an encyclopedic art museum whose collections spans over 4000 years, from ancient to contemporary art. Furthermore, the museum’s collections encompass various geographical areas – Far and Near East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas – and art fields – including painting, sculpture, photography, archaeology, architecture, design, and decorative arts.
Meanwhile, here's a photo of our first home in Platte
Woods, Missouri- a suburb of Kansas City with the 4D's. Front Yard of
5701 West Linden Road, Summer of 1968( or 1967?).
Dodie Diosdado, Dinah Elaine, David Ernst and Ditas Macrine Katague- Childhood Years in Platte Woods, Missouri,Kansas City, USA
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