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Fine Arts Building and David Owsley Museum of Art (Muncie, Indiana)

USA / Indiana / Muncie / Muncie, Indiana
 art museum / art gallery, educational building, 1930s construction

The building is best known as the home of the David Owsley Museum of Art. The museum has a permanent collection of more than 11,000 works valued at more than $40 million. It is one of four Indiana art museums with a notable, well-rounded collection.

Tours are available and admission is free.
www.bsu.edu/artmuseum/

Prior to the Great Depression, plans were drawn up for an Arts Center on campus to house the art and music departments and an art gallery. A state moratorium on spending in 1932 put a stop to these plans, however, and it was not until 1935 that enough money was received through the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works to begin construction. George Schreiber, who also designed Elliott and Lucina Halls on campus, was the architect of the Collegiate Gothic style building.

After its construction, the Fine Arts Building also housed the foreign language, English, and social science departments. The Frank Ball art collection formed the nucleus of what became the university's art museum. Today the building contains the museum, classrooms, offices, and recital hall, a fine Renaissance-style auditorium.
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Coordinates:   40°11'59"N   85°24'37"W
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