Cantor Arts Center

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor
Center for Visual Arts
Historic facade and main entrance.
Map
Interactive fullscreen map
Former name
The Stanford University Museum of Art
Established1894
LocationStanford, California
Coordinates37°25′59″N 122°10′16″W / 37.43306°N 122.17111°W / 37.43306; -122.17111
TypeArt museum
Key holdingsRodin, Muybridge, Diebenkorn, Warhol, Stanford family collections and memorabilia
FounderThe Stanford family
DirectorVeronica Roberts [1]
Websitemuseum.stanford.edu

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.

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.

  1. ^ "Cantor Arts Center". Cantor Arts Center. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body". museum.stanford.edu.

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