Columbia Museum of Art. The Columbia Museum of Art is an art museum in the American city of Columbia, South Carolina.
The Columbia Museum of Art was originally in the 1908 private residence of the city's Taylor family. Located on Senate Street in Columbia, adjacent to the campus of the University of South Carolina and three blocks from the South Carolina State House, the Taylor House, through the addition of gallery wings and a round planetarium, became the home of the Columbia Museum of Art for almost 50 years.
Subsequently, the Taylor House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. When the museum was founded in 1950, the first-exhibited art collection consisted of the gifts and bequests of local collectors and ten Old Master paintings, several by Joshua Reynolds, Scipione Pulzone, Juan de Pareja, and Artus Wolffort.
The circumstances appreciably changed in 1954, when the museum was included among the 95 institutions nationwide selected to receive donations of Renaissance and Baroque art from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Designated as a regional center by the Kress Foundation, the Columbia Museum of Art and Science received, over the next 20 years, 78 examples of fine and decorative art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Following the opening of the South Carolina State Museum in 1988, the Columbia Museum of Art and Science eliminated its science component to focus its
The Columbia Museum of Art was originally in the 1908 private residence of the city's Taylor family. Located on Senate Street in Columbia, adjacent to the campus of the University of South Carolina and three blocks from the South Carolina State House, the Taylor House, through the addition of gallery wings and a round planetarium, became the home of the Columbia Museum of Art for almost 50 years.
Subsequently, the Taylor House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. When the museum was founded in 1950, the first-exhibited art collection consisted of the gifts and bequests of local collectors and ten Old Master paintings, several by Joshua Reynolds, Scipione Pulzone, Juan de Pareja, and Artus Wolffort.
The circumstances appreciably changed in 1954, when the museum was included among the 95 institutions nationwide selected to receive donations of Renaissance and Baroque art from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Designated as a regional center by the Kress Foundation, the Columbia Museum of Art and Science received, over the next 20 years, 78 examples of fine and decorative art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Following the opening of the South Carolina State Museum in 1988, the Columbia Museum of Art and Science eliminated its science component to focus its
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