Essential Question: What is the difference between an art gallery and an art museum?
Studio Art
Museums and Galleries
Name: _________________________________________________
Please answer the following questions in your own
words. Choose one gallery and one museum to research. Click on one of the highlighted words for a link to the site.
Museums (25 points)
The Albright Knox
The Burchfield-Penney Art Center
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA)
The Royal Ontario Museum (RAM)
Characteristics
Which museum did you choose?
What makes this a museum?
Your Answer
What is the address (where is it)?
What kind of artwork is in the collection?
How many visitors do they get each year?
What are some of the funding sources? In other words, how do they make/raise money?
Name one other fact you found about this museum.

Essential Question: What is the difference between an art gallery and an art museum?
Galleries (25 points)
Hallwalls
Squeaky Wheel
The Carnegie Art Center
CEPA
Characteristics
Which gallery did you choose?
Why is it a gallery?
What is the address (where is it)?
What kind of artwork is in the collection?
How many visitors do they get each year?
What are some of the funding sources? In other words, how do they make/raise money?
Name one other fact you found about this gallery.
Your Answer

List 3-5 ways that galleries and museums are similar. (20 points)
List 3-5 ways that galleries and museums are different. (20 points)
Search on the Internet for a gallery or museum NOT listed above. Write down the name, location, web address, and whether it is a gallery or museum. (5 points)