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Cantor Arts Center
Art museum in Stanford, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cantor Arts Center (officially Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, previously the Stanford University Museum of Art) is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States.
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Former name | The Stanford University Museum of Art |
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Established | 1894 |
Location | Stanford, California |
Coordinates | 37°25′59″N 122°10′16″W |
Type | Art museum |
Key holdings | Rodin, Muybridge, Diebenkorn, Warhol, Stanford family collections and memorabilia |
Founder | The Stanford family |
Director | Veronica Roberts [1] |
Website | museum |
The museum first opened in 1894 and consists of over 130,000 sq ft (12,000 m2) of exhibition space, including sculpture gardens. The Cantor Arts Center houses the largest collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside of Paris and the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, with 199 works, most in bronze but others in different media.[2] The museum is open to the public and charges no admission.