The Walker Art Center is a museum of founded Mineapolis in 1879 by Thomas Barlow Walker. It is on its current site since 1927 and was the first public art gallery of the Upper Midwest . The museum concentrates on the Modern art since the years 1940, when a gift of Mrs Gilbert Walker made possible the acquisition of works of important artists like Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and well of others.

Walker Art Center is established on a property of more than: 69000 m ² which includes/understands two buildings and of the parks. The open northern wing in 1971 was drawn by Edward Larrabee Barnes. In 2005 an extension conceived by the architects Swiss S Herzog & of Meuron opened thus doubling the surface of exposure of the museum and also offering a restaurant and a theater of 385 places. Its Endowment (equipment) is approximately 185 million dollars per annum.

The Mineapolis Sculpture Garden, a collaboration between the Walker museum and the Mineapolis Park and Re-creation Board , is a park of exposure of sculptures located at the north of the Walker museum, it opened in 1988 and was increased in 1992. It currently covers a surface of some: 44500 m ², the new plan of extension envisage an addition of: 16000 m ² on the West of the museum in 2006.

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