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Currier Museum of Art

Address: 150 Ash St., Manchester, NH | Map It
Phone: 603/669-6144; 603/626-4158 Zimmerman House tours
www.currier.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Manchester

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New England's only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence open to the public reopened in spring 2008 after a two-year, $20 million renovation that doubled gallery space, and created new shop, visitor entrance, café, and a winter garden with a Sol LeWitt mural that faces the original 1929 Italianate entrance. There's a permanent collection of European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th to the 20th century, including works by Monet, Picasso, Hopper, Wyeth, and O'Keeffe. Also part of the museum is the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Zimmerman House, built in 1950. Wright called this sparse, utterly functional living space "Usonian," an invented term used to describe fifty such middle-income homes he built with a vision of distinctly American architecture.

Cost: $10, free Sat. 10-noon; Zimmerman House $16 (reservations essential)
Open: Sun., Mon., Wed., and Fri. 11-5; first Thurs. of every month 11-8; Sat. 10-5; call for Zimmerman House tour hrs

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