Birmingham Museum of Art

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Birmingham Museum of Art

Oscar Wells Memorial entrance to the museum
Interactive fullscreen map
Established	April 1951
Location	2000 Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd. North (formerly 8th Avenue North) Birmingham, Alabama, US
Coordinates	33°31′18.8″N 86°48′36.7″W / 33.521889°N 86.810194°W / 33.521889; -86.810194
Type	Municipal art museum
Director	Graham Boettcher
Website	www.artsbma.org

The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. The museum is also home to some Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculptures,and decorative arts from the late 13th century to c. 1750.

The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres (16,000 m²) in the heart of the city's cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight and Davis, and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993. The facility encompasses 180,000 square feet (17,000 m²), including an outdoor sculpture garden.

The museum is part of the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network, launched in 2021 by the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art.^[1]