TOLEDO.- The Toledo Museum of Art presents the exhibit The Art of Building: Creating Your Museum Campus through August 27. People often identify the Toledo Museum of Art as the marble building with columns on Monroe Street. But the Museum actually includes many buildings, built at different times and for different purposes. Today, they house the Museum’s collection and staff and serve the community as the setting for exhibitions, concerts, programs, and classes. What did it take to build them?

This exhibition celebrates the construction of three buildings on the Museum campus—the main Museum building, the University of Toledo’s Center for the Visual Arts, and the Museum’s new Glass Pavilion. All three are monuments to the aspirations of the Museum community and the talent of their architects, but also to the skills, courage, and hard work of the construction workers who built them. As you will see, in building for art, they truly exercised the art of building.

The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its present location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912. The building was expanded twice in the 1920s and 1930s

The museum contains major collections of glass art and of 19th and 20th century European and American Art, as well as small but distinguished Renaissance, Greek and Roman, and Japanese collections. Notable individual works include Peter Paul Rubens's The Crowning of Saint Catherine, significant minor works by Rembrandt and El Greco, and modern works by Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, and Sol LeWitt.

A concert hall within the east wing, the Peristyle, is built in a classical style to match the museum's exterior. The hall is the principal concert space for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. A sculpture garden, containing primarily postwar works (earlier sculptures are on display in the interior) was added in 2001, and runs in a narrow band along the museum's Monroe Street facade.

A Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Frank Gehry, was added in the 1990s; the Center includes the museum's library as well as studio, office, and classroom space for the art department of the University of Toledo. In 2000, architect Kazuyo Sejima was chosen to design a new building, scheduled to open in early 2006, to house the museum's glass collection; the commission was her first in the United States.