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MacNider Art Museum

MacNider Art Museum is an art museum in Iowa, United States.

About MacNider Art Museum

MacNider Art Museum, officially the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, is an art museum conceived in 1964 and opened to the public in 1966 in Mason City, Iowa. It is housed in a former convent. The museum is known for its collection of American art, and includes paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, sculpture, fused and blown glass and textiles. There is a special collection of Bil Baird marionettes, hand puppets and ephemera, including those used for "The Lonely Goatherd" scene in the film The Sound of Music.

It is named after Charles H. MacNider (b. 1860), president of the First National Bank of Mason City and father of General Hanford MacNider.

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1966

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Artworks shown from MacNider Art Museum are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.