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Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 N. Michigan Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46208
Phone: 317-923-1331
E-mail: ima@imamuseum.org
Web Site: Click to visit their web site
Distance from Downtown: 4.12 miles
Just a short drive or bus ride from downtown Indianapolis on 152 acres of gardens and grounds, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is the fifth largest general art museum in the United States, with a collection of more than 50,000 works that spans a wide range of cultures and eras. Highlights of the collection include:
  • The Samuel Josefowitz Collection of Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven
  • The Neo-Impressionist Collection, featuring the work of Georges Seurat and his followers
  • One of the most significant collection of works by J.M.W. Turner outside of Great Britain
  • One of the most outstanding collections of Japanese Edo-period paintings in the nation.
The IMA also has significant holdings of African art, Chinese ceramics, West Asian rugs, fashion arts, and a rapidly growing contemporary collection from emerging and internationally renowned artists.

In addition to housing its art collection, the Museum also is a premier showcase for national and international exhibitions. It regularly hosts a variety of lectures, classes and workshops. In 2005, the Indianapolis Museum of Art reopened following a $74 million expansion that doubled its size, increased exhibition and gallery space and expanded visitor amenities.


Oldfields - Lilly House & Gardens
A National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Oldfields - Lilly House & Gardens is an elegant 26-acre estate on the grounds of the IMA. Lilly House is a historic house museum and has been restored to its 1930s splendor. Percival Gallagher, of the acclaimed landscape architecture firm Olmsted Brothers, designed Oldfields' magnificent gardens and grounds in the 1920s.

Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park
Slated to open in fall 2009, the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park will be one of the largest museum contemporary sculpture parks in the United States as it is located on 100 acres of untamed woodlands, wetlands, lake, and meadow adjacent to the IMA. Ten inaugural artists have been selected to create site-specific works for the Park, which will open with installations by Haluk Akakce, Atelier Van Lieshout, Kendall Buster, Sam Easterson, Peter Eisenman, Alfredo Jaar, Los Carpinteros, Tea Makipaa, Mary Miss, Type A, and Andrea Zittel.

The Museum is open Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Thurs.-Fri., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Closed Mon., Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. General admission is free. Gardens and grounds open daily from dawn until dusk.
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Exhibition: Giovanni Bellini and the Art of Devotion
March 1, 2007 ‑ December 31, 2008
Cirrus Editions/Crown Point Press
May 31, 2008 ‑ November 30, 2008
Shared Beauty: Eastern Rugs & Western Purses
May 31, 2008 ‑ January 4, 2009
More Than Four Legs: A Closer Look at Chairs
August 10, 2008 ‑ January 19, 2009
Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
September 26, 2008 ‑ November 23, 2008
The Viewing Project
October 28, 2008 ‑ October 28, 2011
Christmas at Lilly House
November 18, 2008 ‑ January 11, 2009
Virtuosos and Visions
November 21, 2008
Tara Donovan
December 12, 2008 ‑ June 14, 2009
Winter Solstice
December 18, 2008
Sacred Spain: Art & Belief in the Golden Age
October 11, 2009 ‑ January 3, 2010
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