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"IMA to Become A New Kind of Art Museum"
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Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN, USA United States of America

The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced ambitious plans to become a new kind of art museum with three major art experiences for visitors. According to IMA director Bret Waller, the intended transformation will propel the 116-year-old institution into the top tier of American art museums. The new vision will improve visitor services, build art collections and exhibition facilities, and develop as major visitor destinations the Oldfields Estate and the new Art & Nature Park. The museum already has raised or has commitments for nearly two-thirds of the $160 million investment required to realize its vision.

When this vision is realized the IMA will be unique among American museums in the character, variety and quality of the diverse art experiences it offers visitors to its beautiful, 150-acre urban campus, Waller explained. In addition, by increasing our general operating endowment, the IMA will be able to expand educational programming for adults and children. The expanded endowment will help cover the cost of mounting world-class special exhibitions and bringing top-tier traveling exhibitions to central Indiana. Our aim is to more than double our current number of visitors and to serve one million people a year by the time this vision is fully realized.

Great art is essential, said Waller, but museums also must focus on the quality of the visitor experience. With the variety of great art experiences we will be able to offer visitors, this will be a place where everyone finds something exciting and everyone feels invited, welcome and comfortable.

Leonard J. Betley, IMA chairman, said, We challenged ourselves to think of what it would take to become one of the best dozen art museums in the country and what it would mean to the city, the state and the region. We sought the opinions of our donors and patrons. This ambitious idea of a new kind of art museum is the culmination of that visioning process, and, when completed in several years, will take the IMA to a position of national prominence.

According to Betley, additions and improvements to the main museum building complex will enhance the visitor experience and will enable the IMA to present important art collections that are not now shown or are not adequately displayed.

The projected investments will enhance four major asset areas of Indiana’s premier art museum: the IMA’s excellent art collections, the Museum’s buildings and grounds, the historic Oldfields Estate and the new, 100-acre Art & Nature Park to be developed on the IMA’s grounds. In addition, funds will help secure the future of the IMA by building the operating endowment.


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