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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Art_galleryArt gallery - Wikipedia

    An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. [1]

  2. The Columbus Museum of Art ( CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (its name until 1978), [3] it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio.

  3. The Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first institution in the United States created specifically as an art museum. Founded in Washington, D.C., in 1869, the Corcoran remained a vital part of our city for nearly 150 years.

  4. When the Gallery was founded in 1824, the first 38 paintings came from the private art collection of the banker John Julius Angerstein. Our world-class collection of paintings has grown considerably over the last two centuries. Today, we have over 2,300 works, spanning the major traditions of Western European painting.

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