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Museum of International Folk Art

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The Museum of International Folk Art was founded by Florence Dibell Bartlett and opened to the public in 1953. It is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has become known as the world's largest collection of folk art.

The New Mexico museum collects, preserves, interprets, and presents folk culture from all parts of the globe. It also promotes and broadens the study of other expressive aspects of folk culture, including folk music, drama, dance, and verbal arts.

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The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
... The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is temporarily closed, and the folk art collection is moving to a new building adjacent to the DeWitt Wallace Museum. The Public Hospital, the Museums Store, and an exhibition of Masterworks from ...
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art.cfm

Southern Arizona Folk Arts
... must begin with a definition of those two rather hazy words, "folk" and "art." Art historians and collectors, artists and art critics, folklorists and anthropologists may define and use the two words quite differently, and it is only fair to ...
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/folkarts/

Albany Museum of Art
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