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Art Collectors’ Personal Museums
Hillwood Museum and Gardens is an "art collectors’ personal museum." This distinctive type of museum can be a home, estate, or exhibit space created by collectors who acquired objects of artistic significance and international importance. Each collector created unique collections with unique trust instruments. They all, however, house art collections of worldwide significance, were founded by serious art collectors, and were left to the public to be experienced within the ambience created for their display. Other American art museums of this genre include:


The Barnes Foundation
Merion, Pennsylvania

Bayou Bend
Houston, Texas

Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, D.C.

The Frick Collection
New York, New York

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, Massachusetts

Hearst Castle
San Simeon, California

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, Connecticut


Huntington Library, Art Gallery
and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, California

The Hyde Collection
Glens Falls, New York

Kreeger Museum
Washington, D.C.

Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, Texas

John and Mable Ringling Museum
Sarasota, Florida

Taft Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio

Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
Winterthur, Delaware



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