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INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Museum of Art is reopening its European galleries today, marking the completion of its three-year, $74 million expansion and renovation project.
"With the reinstallation of our European galleries, IMA visitors can now make their way through the history of visual creativity around the globe," said Maxwell Anderson, director and CEO. "We look forward to welcoming schoolchildren, families and scholars to a rich and textured experience of European art, filled with story-telling, portraiture, religious themes, images of city life and country life, and the subjects and objects valued by artists and viewers from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era."
Altogether, the museum's renovation added three new wings, 50 percent more gallery space, expanded educational studios and classrooms, two new restaurants by Wolfgang Puck Catering and an expanded gift store. The construction added 164,000 square feet and includes renovation of 90,000 square feet of existing space.
The new European galleries are in the Hulman and Clowes Pavilions on the first and second levels...