A single artist museum features the life and work of one artist and can be a private or public entity. It can be established during the artist's lifetime or after the artist's death.

Home and studio single-artist museums

Home and studio single artist museums expand on the historic tradition of preserving European artist's studios. The Fondation Monet Giverny in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

, where

Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

lived and worked from 1883 until his death in 1926, maintains and shares with the public his famous gardens, home, studio and some of his masterpieces. Home and studio single artist museums "can take on the character of a pilgrimage site, whether that's due to the intense focus of its collections or to circumstances that grant an artist's ephemera the status of relics." The Frida Kahlo Museum, where Frido Kahlo was born, and lived and worked, was inaugurated as a single artist museum in 1958 and displays artwork by Kahlo as well as documents, books and more. It "exhibits the ambience that inspired Frida for her creation, as well as her personal belongings." Lambda med Akerselvallmenningen og Munchs brygge

Lambda med Akerselvallmenningen og Munchs brygge

Purpose-built single-artist museums

In 2021, the

City of Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

, where

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, ''The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dr ...

lived and worked, opened a purpose-built museum on the waterfront dedicated to the creator of the infamous painting '' The Scream.'' It was a hundred years after

bequeathed his works to Oslo and initiated discussions about a future museum, that the architectural firm

Estudio Herreros Juan Herreros (born 1958 in San Lorenzo del Escorial) is a Spanish architect. His work promotes a pragmatic review of the tradition of modern architecture. Biography He graduated in 1985 at the Technical School of Architecture of Madrid where ...

designed MUNCH in Bjorvika. At 26,313 meters (more than 280,000 square feet) the new MUNCH is one of the world's largest museums devoted to a single artist. There are several museums dedicated to the 20th century artist

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...

. The

Salvador Dalí Museum The Salvador Dalí Museum is an art museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, dedicated to the works of Salvador Dalí. It is located on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront by 5th Avenue Southeast, Bay Shore Drive, and Dan Wheldon Way ...

that opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2011, was designed by architect Yang Weymouth. It features more than 2400 works collected by A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse and others, as well as gardens, and a center for avant-garde research.

List of single-artist museums

References

External links

La Maison de Monet

Œuvres a Giverny

This is Munch
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