Glossary: Art Collection

Art Collection

An accumulation of works of art by a private individual or a public institution. Art collecting has a long history, and most of the world’s art museums grew out of great private collections formed by royalty, the aristocracy, or the wealthy.
(source: https://www.britannica.com/art/art-collection)

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The above image is of Brooklyn Museum’s Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. “This dense display of objects offers an inside look at how museums work and provides a glimpse of our extensive American collections. As large as our building is, just a small fraction of the permanent collections can be displayed in our gallery space. Whereas only about 350 works are on view in the adjacent American Art installation, this facility gives open access to some 2,000 of the many thousands of American objects held in storage, which are available for viewing and research by students, scholars, and the general public…
Although this is an operating storage facility, we have designed it to be welcoming and user friendly. Accompanied by informational booklets, selected “focus objects” are displayed on colored shelves, in cases, and on the painting screens. There is a searchable online database, also available in the Visible Storage ▪ Study Center.”
(source: Brooklyn Museum)

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An accumulation of works of art by a private individual or a public institution. Art collecting has a long history, and most of the world’s art museums grew out of great private collections formed by royalty, the aristocracy, or the wealthy. (source: https://www.britannica.com/art/art-collection)

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