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The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed [1] by locals, is the oldest and largest art museum in Kentucky. It was established in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky, on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus. It receives around 180,000 visits annually. [2]
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile (also known as Funeral of a Mummy , French : Les Funérailles d'une momie ) is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Frederick Arthur Bridgman .
His first wife, Cora Coffin Speed, had died the year prior. Traveling extensively throughout the US as well as abroad, the two enjoyed collecting paintings and sculptures. With James Speed's death in 1912, Hattie established the Speed Art Museum to memorialize of her husband of his love of art. [ 3 ]
"Jouett Centenary: Portraits Shown at the Speed Museum". The Courier-Journal. February 26, 1928. p. 28. The 100th anniversary of Matthew Harris Jouett is being celebrated by an exhibition of his portraits loaned by the owners to the J.B.Speed Memorial Museum. . . .
This list of museums in Kentucky is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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The museum is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and is housed in a 135,000 sq ft (12,500 m 2) facility. The museum has been in operation since 1992, and was established by Speedway Motors founder "Speedy" Bill Smith and his wife Joyce Smith, as a repository for a collection of automobilia amassed over 60 years.
James Breckenridge Speed was born on January 4, 1844, in Boonville, Missouri to Marry Ellen (née Shallcross) and William Pope Speed, son of John Speed. His mother died when he was an infant. [ 1 ] He came to Louisville as an 11-year-old, James B. Speed was raised there by aunt Lucy Fry Speed, thus always considered a Louisvillian.