Saint Louis Art Museum

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums, containing more than 33,000 works of art.

Mission
The Saint Louis Art Museum collects, presents, interprets, and conserves works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures; educates, inspires discovery, and elevates the human spirit; and preserves a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world.


History
The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of good design in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind.

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1 Exterior of Saint Louis Art Museum. Courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum.
Fine Arts Drive 1
St. Louis 63110 MO US
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Director

Min Jung Kim

Hours

Tue-Sun 10-5, Fri 10-9

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