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Grand Historic Museum Buildings

Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: Horace Trumbauer and Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary
Completed: 1928















Museum: Art Gallery of New South Wales (original building)
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Architect: Walter Liberty Vernon
Completed: 1897









Museum: Franklin Institute (original building)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: John T. Windrim
Completed: 1934-38









Museum: St. Louis Art Museum (original building)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Architect: Cass Gilbert
Completed: 1904





Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (original buildings)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Architect: Guy Lowell
Completed: 1909-15

















Museum: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (original building)
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Architect: Wight and Wight
Completed: 1933









Museum: Missouri History Museum (original building)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Architect: ?
Completed: 1913



Museum: Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Hornstein Pavilion
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Architect: William Sutherland Maxwell
Completed: 1912



Museum: Rodin Museum
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: Paul Cret and Jacques Greber
Completed: 1929



Museum: Please Touch Museum (housed in Memorial Hall)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: Hermann J. Schwarzmann
Completed: 1876







Museum: American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: James Renwick, Jr.
Completed: 1874





Museum: National Gallery of Art, West Building
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: John Russell Pope
Completed: 1941











Museum: National Museum of Natural History
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: Hornblower and Marshall
Completed: 1911











Museum: American Museum of Natural History (original buildings)
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: numerous
Completed: 1877-1936



















Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art (original buildings)
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Richard Morris Hunt (facade and Great Hall), numerous others (additions)
Completed: 1874 and after (1902 for facade)

























Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (original building)
Location: Houston, Texas
Architect: William Ward Watkin
Completed: 1924-26



Museum: Museum of Science and Industry (housed in The Palace of Fine Arts)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Charles B. Atwood
Completed: 1893





Museum: Field Museum of Natural History
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: D.H. Burnham and Company
Completed: 1921



















Museum: National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum (housed in Old Patent Office Building)
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: Robert Mills (original building), Foster + Partners (covered atrium addition)
Completed: 1865 (original building), 2006 (covered atrium addition)













All photos taken by geomorph in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

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