Nelson Art Gallery

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in , , known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in Kansas City, Missouri
  • Also known as: “N.A.M.A”, “NAMA”, “Nelson Atkins”, “Nelson Atkins Museum”, “Nelson Atkins Museum of Art”, “Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum”, “Nelson Museum”, “Nelson-Atkins”, “Nelson-Atkins Museum”, “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”, “The Nelson”, “The Nelson Atkins Museum”, “The Nelson-Atkins”, “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”, and “William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts”
  • Postal code: 64111

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Community Christian Church.

Museum
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opened in 1994 in . With a $5 million annual budget and approximately 75,000 visitors each year, it is Missouri's first and largest contemporary museum. is situated 1,300 feet west of Nelson Art Gallery.

Church
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was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and sits across from the 's main shopping district on Main Street at East 46th Street in . is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Nelson Art Gallery.

University building
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in , is a historic building constructed in 1903. An elaborate example of Prairie School architecture by Louis Singleton Curtiss, it originally served as a residence. is situated 1,000 feet northwest of Nelson Art Gallery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Country Club Plaza and Westport.

Suburb
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The is a privately owned regional in the Country Club District of . Opened in 1923, it is considered to be the first planned large outdoor suburban shopping center in the United States and among the first regional centers to accommodate shoppers arriving by car.

Suburb
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is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in . In the early 19th century, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.

Village
is a city in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 400. It is the most densely populated city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area at 6,240 people per square mile. is situated 1½ miles west of Nelson Art Gallery.

Nelson Art Gallery

Latitude
39.04528° or 39° 2′ 43″ north
Longitude
-94.58051° or 94° 34′ 50″ west
Elevation
925 feet (282 metres)
Open location code
86F72CW9+4Q
Geo­Names ID
4400156
Wiki­data ID
Q1976985
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Nelson Art Gallery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف نلسون أتكنز للفنون”
  • Armenian: “Նելսոն-Ատկինս արվեստի թանգարան”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй мастацтваў Нэльсана-Аткінса”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Art Nelson-Atkins”
  • Catalan: “Museu Nelson-Atkins”
  • Catalan: “Nelson Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Catalan: “Nelson Museum”
  • Chinese: “尼爾遜艾堅斯藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊·艾京斯美术馆”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊艺术博物馆”
  • Czech: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Danish: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Dutch: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo de Arto “Nelson-Atkins””
  • Finnish: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • French: “musée d’art Nelson-Atkins”
  • French: “Musée d’art Nelson-Atkins”
  • Georgian: “ნელსონ-ატკინსის ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Greek: “nelson atkins”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון נלסון-אטקינס לאמנות”
  • Igbo: “N.A.M.A”
  • Igbo: “NAMA”
  • Igbo: “Nelson Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Igbo: “Nelson Atkins Museum”
  • Igbo: “Nelson Atkins”
  • Igbo: “Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum”
  • Igbo: “Nelson Museum”
  • Igbo: “Nelson-Atkins Museum”
  • Igbo: “Nelson-Atkins”
  • Igbo: “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Igbo: “The Nelson-Atkins”
  • Igbo: “William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Seni Nelson-Atkins”
  • Italian: “Museo Nelson-Atkins”
  • Japanese: “ネルソン・アトキンス美術館”
  • Japanese: “ネルソン・アトキンズ美術館”
  • Korean: “넬슨 아킨스 미술관”
  • Macedonian: “Ликовен музеј „Нелсон-Еткинс“”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Norwegian: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Persian: “موزه هنر نلسون اتکینز”
  • Polish: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Arte Nelson-Atkins”
  • Russian: “Музей искусств Нельсона-Аткинса”
  • Serbian: “Музеј уметности Нелсон-Аткинс”
  • Slovenian: “NAMA”
  • Slovenian: “Nelson-Atkinsonov muzej umetnosti”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Arte Nelson-Atkins”
  • Spanish: “Museo Nelson Atkins”
  • Spanish: “Museo Nelson-Atkins”
  • Swedish: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Turkish: “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”
  • Turkish: “Nelson-Atkins Sanat Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей мистецтв Нельсона-Аткінса”
  • Urdu: “نلسن اٹکنز آرٹ میوزیم”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Nghệ thuật Nelson-Atkins”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa Gelf Nelson-Atkins”
  • “Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”

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