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Figge Art Museum Opens to the Public on August 6It's taken three years.
Now the Figge Art Museum (formerly the Davenport Museum of Art) will open in a new modern building on the banks of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, on August 6.
Architect David Chipperfield, whose resume includes the Shore Club in Miami, stores for Dolce & Gabbana, and two other museums in Japan and England, designed the 100,000 square foot volume.
Its sleek monolithic skin ofopaque, transparent, and translucent glass houses permanent and special galleries, five classrooms, an auditorium, a library, a winter garden, and a restaurant.
There's also an outdoor sculpture garden.
The inaugural exhibition, "The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915- 1935," starts September 17.
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