The Andy Warhol Museum
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The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist.[4] The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.
Established | May 13, 1994 |
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Location | 117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
Coordinates | 40.4484°N 80.0024°W / 40.4484; -80.0024 |
Type | Art museum |
Visitors | 106,396 (2010) |
Director | Patrick Moore[1] |
Curator | José Carlos Diaz[2] |
Website | warhol |
Official name | Andy Warhol Museum (Volkwein's, Frick & Lindsay Building) |
Designated | 2000[3] |
The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA).[5]
The museum is located in an 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) facility on seven floors. Containing 17 galleries, the museum features 900 paintings, close to 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, 77 sculptures, 4,000 photographs, and over 4,350 Warhol films and videotaped works. Its most recent operating budget (2010) was $6.1 million. In addition to its Pittsburgh location the museum has sponsored 56 traveling exhibits that have attracted close to nine million visitors in 153 venues worldwide since 1996.[6]