Columbia Encyclopedia

(Encyclopedia) Chicago Natural History Museum: see Field Museum of Natural History. ...

(Encyclopedia) Broad Contemporary Art Museum: see under Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...

(Encyclopedia) Museum of Broadcasting: see Paley Center for Media. ...

(Encyclopedia) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenæum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects...

(Encyclopedia) British Guiana: see Guyana.

(Encyclopedia) British Honduras: see Belize.

(Encyclopedia) British Somaliland: see Somalia.

(Encyclopedia) British Togoland: see Togoland.

(Encyclopedia) Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the mu...

(Encyclopedia) Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with a core group of 700 artworks, many from her own collection. The museum was an outgrowth of the Whi...