Art Museum
Shaw Center for the Arts
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Shaw Center for the Arts is an art museum in Baton Rouge, United States.
About Shaw Center for the Arts
The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000 square foot (12,000 m²) performing art venue, fine arts museum, and education center located at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 2005. The Center includes the LSU Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art Glassell Gallery, the 325-seat Manship Theatre, classrooms, Tsunami, a rooftop sushi restaurant, and a park. Among other collections, the museum includes the largest assemblage of Newcomb Pottery in the United States.
The skin of the Shaw Center for the Arts is made of translucent channel glass manufactured in Germany by Glasfabrik Lamberts.
Shaw Center for the Arts by the numbers
- Founded
- 2005
Plan your visit
Shaw Center for the Arts
- Website
- www.shawcenter.org
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- Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston, United States
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