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The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known Art Museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio , United States . The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Libbey in 1901 , and moved to its present location, a Greek Revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912 . The building was expanded twice in the 1920s and 1930s . The museum contains major collections of Glass Art and of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art , as well as small but distinguished Renaissance , Greek and Roman , and Japanese collections. Notable individual works include Peter Paul Rubens 's ''The Crowning of Saint Catherine,'' significant minor works by Rembrandt and El Greco , and modern works by Willem De Kooning , Henry Moore , and Sol LeWitt . A concert hall within the east wing, the Peristyle, is built in a classical style to match the museum's exterior. The hall is the principal concert space for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra . A Sculpture Garden , containing primarily Postwar works (earlier sculptures are on display in the interior) was added in 2001, and runs in a narrow band along the museum's Monroe Street facade. painting, ''The Crowning of Saint Catherine'', from the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art]] A Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Frank Gehry , was added in the 1990s ; the Center includes the museum's library as well as studio, office, and classroom space for the art department of the University Of Toledo . In 2000 , Architect Kazuyo Sejima was chosen to design a new building, scheduled to open in early 2006 , to house the museum's glass collection; the commission was her first in the United States. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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