Chrysler Museum of Art

Chrysler Museum of Art

Chrysler Museum of Art
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Established	1933
Location	1 Memorial Place, Norfolk, Virginia
Coordinates	36°51′25″N 76°17′31″W / 36.85694°N 76.29194°W / 36.85694; -76.29194
Type	Art museum
Visitors	200,000
Director	Erik H. Neil
Curator	Lloyd DeWitt, Ph.D., Chief Curator and Irene Leache Curator of European Art Chelsea Pierce, Ph.D., McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Corey Piper, Ph.D., Brock Curator of American Art) Carolyn Swan Needell, Ph.D., Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass
Website	www.chrysler.org

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 to the museum. This single gift significantly expanded the museum's collection, making it one of the major art museums in the Southeastern United States. From 1958 to 1971, the Chrysler Museum of Art was a smaller museum consisting solely of Chrysler's personal collection and housed in the historic Center Methodist Church in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Today's museum sits on a small body of water known as The Hague.