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The 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m 2) two-story triangular museum was designed by Marvin DeWinter Associates and built at a cost of $11 million. The museum is located in a 20-acre (8.1 ha) park complex that includes the Grand Rapids Public Museum along the west bank of the Grand River in
The museum also maintains the Voigt House Victorian Home, located at 115 College Ave. SE. The Voigt House, built in 1896, was the residence of the Carl Voigt family for over 76 years. Donated to the Grand Rapids Foundation upon the death of the youngest child Ralph Voigt in 1971, the property came into the eventual possession of the museum in 1974.
The Norton Mound group, (also known as Norton Mound Site (20KT1) and Hopewell Indian Mounds Park), is a prehistoric Goodall focus mounds site in Wyoming, Michigan that is under the protection of the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
The museum was founded in 1910 under the name Grand Rapids Art Gallery, which was soon altered to its present name. Initially based in a former residence at 230 Fulton Street, it moved to the historic Federal Building on Pearl Street in 1981. In 2004, construction began on a new green museum building, which was to be LEED certified.
Grand Rapids Art Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Art: Renaissance to Modern art, with strength in European and American 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture Grand Rapids Children's Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Children's: website: Grand Rapids Public Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Local history ...
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and sculpture.
The city wants to hear feedback on a proposal that would replace a sledding hill next to the museum with a new parking lot.
A non-profit institution, it is owned and managed by the Public Museum of Grand Rapids Foundation. An example of Châteauesque architecture in the Heritage Hill Historic District, a neighborhood immediately east of downtown. Heritage Hill, a neighborhood directly east of downtown, is one of the largest urban historic districts in the country ...