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The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (whose wife, Jean Outland Chrysler, was a native of Norfolk), donated most of his extensive collection ...
- Erik H. Neil
- 200,000
- 1933
- 1 Memorial Place, Norfolk, Virginia
- 1915 Dodge Brothers 30-35 Touring Car. A decade before the Chrysler Corporation existed, John and Horace Dodge switched their big Hamtramck, Michigan, factory from supplying major components to Ford Motor Company to manufacturing their first car, the Dodge Brothers 30-35 Touring Car, in late 1914.
- 1934 Chrysler Airflow. With today’s focus groups and clinics, it’s rare for a car company to get a new design concept completely wrong. Yet during the depths of the Great Depression, Chrysler did exactly that when it launched the streamlined Airflow sedan.
- 1941 Chrysler Newport. Chrysler liked this show car so much it built six of them. By the early 1940s the public was more favorably disposed to streamlining than they were when the 1934 Airflows were introduced, so Chrysler revisited the theme with the 1941 Newport.
- 1943 Willys-Overland Jeep MB. The mother of all SUVs was created to replace the horse in the U.S. Cavalry. First developed by American Bantam Motors on the eve of World War II, what we now know as the original Jeep was mass-produced during the war by Willys Overland and Ford Motor Company.
Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Or by appointment 757–666-6205. MUSEUM SHOP. Open during Museum hours or shop online at shop.chrysler.org. ZINNIA CAFÉ. Grab-and-Go: Museum hours. Full Service Lunch: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 2 p.m. Visit zinniava.com for full menu. PROTECT THE ART.
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Nov 12, 2021 · In 1971, Chrysler donated his collection to Norfolk’s museum. It was worth $60 million to $80 million, and he and his wife eventually gifted more than 25,000 pieces and helped the museum gain ...
Oct 21, 2021 · While Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. was building the collection that would eventually come to the Chrysler Museum of Art, his sister Bernice Chrysler Garbisch and her husband Colonel Edgar William Garbisch formed one of the nation’s preeminent collections of American folk art.
May 22, 2014 · Housed in a 1933 Italianate palazzo at the edge of the Hague Inlet in Norfolk, the museum was, until Walter Chrysler’s 1971 arrival, the Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences, a local affair, run by ...
At 10,000 objects, glass comprises roughly a third of all holdings at the Chrysler Museum of Art, a fact that can be attributed to the gift of Norfolk resident, Florence Smith, who donated her collection of New England Glass Company antiques in the 1950s.
