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Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Website »
The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, also known as the RISD Museum, is Rhode Island’s leading museum of fine and decorative art, housing a collection of 84,000 objects of international significance. It is southeastern New England’s only comprehensive art museum and is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
Highlights from the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design’s extensive
and superb collection of prints by the French artist Jacques Callot (1592-1635) are on view June 17,
2011, to January 22, 2012 in the exhibition Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print. The exhibition
explores the themes of Callot’s art alongside his technical innovations in the medium of etching.
Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.
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