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.
Today’s post was prepared for us by Kiara Page, a summer intern for Crystal Bridges’ Public Programs department. This summer I got the opportunity to work as an intern…
Philip Haas’s set of monumental outdoor sculptures, The Four Seasons, are on display on the grounds at Crystal Bridges through the summer. These colorful and fanciful works are a perfect…
11:30 a.m. Site Selection for Sculpture Before any large-scale sculpture is installed, preparators and curators work together to choose a site for it. First, preparators build a three-dimensional scale model…
Early this morning, curators on routine gallery walk-throughs discovered that Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art had experienced a strange break-in overnight. Despite state-of-the-art security systems, professional protection services staff,…
Your work is autobiographical, but not always directly, there are characters… No, it’s from my experience. It’s what I know the best: my experience, who I am, where I am,…
To sooth the pain of our first Monday of Daylight Saving Time, we turn our bleary, red-rimmed and tired eyes to Max Ferguson’s masterful painting, Time. Ferguson captures quiet, everyday…
In honor of Women’s History Month, and our current temporary exhibition of photography, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, today’s Wednesday Women’s blog focuses on photographer Lida Moser.…
