Nevada Museum of Art
Downtown Reno · Reno, Nevada
The Nevada Museum of Art is the only fully accredited art museum in the state, housed in a striking zinc-clad building in downtown Reno designed by architect Will Bruder that opened in 2003. The collection focuses on art of the American West and the Great Basin, with an innovative Center for Art + Environment presenting interdisciplinary exhibitions exploring the human relationship to landscape, ecology, and the natural world. The museum's distinctive institutional focus — Western American art understood in the broadest possible sense, from nineteenth-century landscape painting to contemporary installation and land art — gives it a curatorial identity unlike any other museum in the country. Its downtown Reno location anchors the city's growing arts district.
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