Background
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.
Contractors submit bids for art museum
Thursday was the deadline to submit bids to build the new Art Museum of Western Virginia, but museum officials said no final decision on a contractor has been made.
Art museum to change contractors for new building
The Art Museum of Western Virginia has decided not to use its pre-construction phase contractor, Hunt Construction Group, for the construction phase of its new museum project, museum executive directo
Art museum plan faces new test
A plan to preserve the brick facade of a century-old building located in the footprint of the proposed $46 million art museum will go before the city's Architectural Review Board on Thursday.
