The Fralin Museum of Art
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The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. Before 2012, it was known as the University of Virginia Art Museum. It occupies the historic Thomas H. Bayly Building on Rugby Road in Charlottesville, Virginia, a short distance from the Rotunda.
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History
- 1935The museum was inaugurated in 1935 in a building designed by Edmund S. Campbell, dean of the School of Art and Architecture, who also served as the museum's first director.
- 1960sThe museum closed during World War II and again during the 1960s, when the School of Architecture requisitioned it for additional classrooms.
- 2009Spaces devoted to exhibiting and teaching comprise 6,000 square feet, including Print Study and Object Study galleries, which were introduced after a $2 million renovation in 2009.
- 2016In November 2016, Matthew McLendon was named director and chief curator of the museum.
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