Art, Design and Architecture Museum

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Art, Design and Architecture Museum
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Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at UCSB
Art, Design and Architecture Museum
Established1959
Location University of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, California
Coordinates 34°24′43″N119°50′56″W / 34.4120°N 119.8488°W / 34.4120; -119.8488
TypeArt, design, architecture museum
Website museum.ucsb.edu

The Art, Design and Architecture Museum [1] (branded as AD&A Museum) is a museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara, located in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [2]

Contents

Built in 1959, the museum was originally a gallery for art education at UC Santa Barbara. [3] Today the AD&A contains a fine art collection of over 8,500 works.

Collection

Other than the 8,500 original works the AD&A also possesses over 1,000,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection. [3]

The museum's digital collections were enhanced during the COVID-19 crisis so that audiences could continue to enjoy its resources while quarantine was in place. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "University of California Humanities Research and Scholarship Opportunities" (PDF). University of California Office of the President. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  2. ↑ Dinaberg, Leslie (2023-08-13). "An Art Museum with a Defining Collection of Southern California Architecture & Design". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
  3. 1 2 UAM Website Archived July 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Grega, Josh (2020-04-28). "UCSB's Art, Design, & Architecture Museum enhancing online exhibits while gallery is closed due to coronavirus". Santa Barbara News-Press. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
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