A world-class collection of American art, stunning architecture, and 120 acres of Ozark forest with five miles of trails. Admission to the museum is always free.
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Museum & Buildings
Trails and Grounds open daily sunrise to sunset.
Thomas DeFrantz is a dance historian, a professor in the dance, theater studies, and women’s studies departments at Duke University, as well as the Chair of African and African American…
Black Friday is behind us, yet many of us are still finding ways to get creative with the post-Thanksgiving leftover turkey. Whether you love this traditional holiday fowl or banish…
October 10, 2016, marks the 278th birthday of artist Benjamin West. You may know him from his painting, Cupid and Psyche, on view in Crystal Bridges Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century…
Within the focus exhibition Changing Perspectives of Native Americans, located in Crystal Bridges’ Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century Art Gallery, hangs one of Crystal Bridges most popular paintings, The Indian and…
Most of the time, you can’t touch art. It kind of sucks, because art is so beautiful! It just hangs there, so luscious and lovely, under a halo of golden…
Interpretation Intern Rome Font prepared today’s blog post on Crystal Bridges’ Exhibition Designer, Jessi Mueller. This continues a series we’re building about careers in museums. –LD “A lot of people think…
Joseph Cornell Untitled (Palais de Cristal), ca. 1953 Wood box construction: printed-paper collage, glass, and metal 13 in. × 9 1/4 in. × 4 1/4 in. (33 × 23.5 ×…
