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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

It is the largest art museum in the southwestern United States - 285,000 square feet holding more than 21,000 works - and it started with a building by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Phoenix Art Museum, at 1625 North Central Avenue in the city's Central Corridor, opened on 18 November 1959. The original three-storey building came from Alden B. Dow, the Michigan architect who trained at Taliesin; a 1965 east wing tripled the museum to 75,000 square feet, and successive expansions - includi...