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From $250 to $66 million
They opened the first one with $250.
The year was 1954. The place: a former restaurant on Franklin Road. The money paid for rent and renovations.
How the art museum came to be
Where to start the story of Roanoke's new art museum? Maybe in a Roanoke bagel shop, where lawyer Heman Marshall ran into Judy Larson, the museum's executive director at the time.
Thomas Eakins: A flesh-and-blood American painter
The poet Walt Whitman once wrote that his friend Thomas Eakins "is not a painter, he is a force."
Art museum chooses building contractor
The Art Museum of Western Virginia has picked Centex Construction, builders of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, to erect its new $46 million museum.
Art museum to feature painted wall
The new Taubman Museum of Art will feature ephemeral art on the wall bordering its outdoor cafe, museum director Georganne Bingham said.
Tornado interrupts art museum gathering
Art museum Executive Director Georganne Bingham had just introduced her deputy director of art, David Brown, to the small crowd at Russ and Kelly Ellis' house June 3 when she saw an amazing thing.
Art museums redesign buildings, images
Art museums throughout the country have gone on a construction binge as older institutions freshen up and expand and fast-growing cities, especially in the Sun Belt, tap into new wealth to show they h
Museum to open doors Nov. 8
It's official. The new Art Museum of Western Virginia will open to the public Nov.
New art museum to carry Taubman name
The Art Museum of Western Virginia will be renamed for its biggest donors, Nicholas and Jenny Taubman, the museum announced.
