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Birmingham Museum of Art company history timeline

1951

In April 1951 the newly established "Birmingham Museum of Art" presented a public "Opening Exhibition" housed in five unused rooms in City Hall.

1952

In 1952 the Samuel H. Kress Foundation presented 29 paintings from the Italian Renaissance as a long-term loan to the new museum, forming the core of the collection of European paintings.

1959

The "Oscar Wells Memorial Building" opened to the public on May 3, 1959.

In the following years the Kress Foundation made two important gifts to the museum: the trusteeship of a collection of Renaissance furniture and decorative objects in 1959, and the deed to the Italian paintings already on loan, along with eight additional works from the same period.

1965

A level of upper floor galleries was added to the building's west wing in 1965.

1967

In 1967 a new east wing was completed.

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