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Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at UCSB
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Established | 1959 |
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Location | University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California |
Coordinates | 34°24′43″N 119°50′56″W / 34.4120°N 119.8488°W / 34.4120; -119.8488 |
Type | Art, design, architecture museum |
Website | museum.ucsb.edu |
The Art, Design and Architecture Museum[1] (branded as AD&A Museum) is located on the campus of the University of California, Santa BarbarainSanta Barbara, California, United States.
Built in 1959, the museum was originally a gallery for art education at UC Santa Barbara.[2] Today the AD&A contains a fine art collection of over 8,500 works.
Other than the 8,500 original works the AD&A also possesses over 1,000,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection.[2]
The museum's digital collections were enhanced during the COVID-19 crisis so that audiences could continue to enjoy its resources while quarantine was in place.[3]
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