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Specialties
The MIA has seven curatorial areas: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; Architecture, Design, Decorative Arts, Craft, and Sculpture; Asian Art; Paintings and Modern Sculpture; Photographs; Prints and Drawings; and Textiles.
Aside from its permanent collection, the MIA is also home to the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, which is an artist-managed curatorial department of the museum devoted to the exhibition of works by artists who live in Minnesota.
The MIA is also Minnesota’s largest art educator. More than half-a-million people visit the museum each year. A hundred thousand more are reached through the museum’s Art Adventure program for elementary school children.
History
Established in 1883.
In 1883, twenty-five citizens of Minneapolis founded the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. More than a century later the Minneapolis Institute of Art stands as a monument to a history of civic involvement and cultural achievement. The MIA expanded in 1974 and again in 2006. In June of that year, the museum unveiled the Target Wing. Designed by Micheal Graves, it includes thirty-four new galleries and an additional 40% exhibition space.
The MIA’s permanent collection has grown from eight hundred works of art to around eighty thousand objects. The MIA has seven curatorial areas: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; Architecture, Design, Decorative Arts, Craft, and Sculpture; Asian Art; Paintings and Modern Sculpture; Photographs; Prints and Drawings; and Textiles.
The museum’s free general-admission policy, public programs, classes for children and adults, and award-winning interactive media programs have helped to broaden and deepen this museum’s roots in the communities it serves.
