Ackland Art Museum at UNC-CH gets gift
Published: Thu, Jul. 31, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Thu, Jul. 31, 2008 01:25AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- The Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill has received $1.25 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the museum's role in educating university students.
The New York foundation's gift comes in the form of a $1 million challenge grant to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the museum's collections and programs, and $250,000 for use over three years to support this endeavor while matching funds are raised.
"This latest grant challenges the Ackland and the university community to make the work of the museum inseparable from the work of the faculty," Chancellor Holden Thorp said. "We couldn't ask for an opportunity that better suits where we want to go in the integration of our public and academic programs."
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The Ackland has more than 15,000 works of art, including significant collections of European painting and sculpture, Asian art, works of art on paper (drawings, photographs and prints), African art, North Carolina pottery and folk art, and 20th-century and contemporary art. The museum, near Franklin and South Columbia streets, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Hours extend to 9 p.m. on the second Friday of each month.
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