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The Detroit Institute of Arts, with more than one billion dollars in art and facilities, is the fifth largest fine arts museum in the country. The DIA has a multicultural and multi-national collection that surveys creative endeavors from prehistory through the 20th century. Nearly a half-million people visit the museum annually.

Among its renowned holdings are impressive collections of German Expressionist and French Impressionist paintings, Flemish paintings, Italian Renaissance art, French furniture, 20th-century art and North America"s finest fresco-Diego Rivera"s Detroit Industry on four walls of the museum"s central court.

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The collection exceeds 55,000 items, including art from African, Oceanic and New World Cultures: Ancient Art; American Art; European Paintings; Asian Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts: 20th-Century Art; and Graphic Arts.

Situated on park-like grounds in Detroit"s University Cultural Center, the central building was designed in Italian Renaissance style by Paul P. Cret and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary. It opened in 1927 and has continued to expand, keeping pace with the growth of the collection. The Edsel and Eleanor Clay Ford Wing (south) was added in 1966 and the Jerome P. Cavanagh Wing (north) in 1971.
The museum is open Wednesday-Fridays 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., weekends 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; closed Mondays, Tuesdays and some holidays. Suggested admission is $4 adults, $1 children, members free. You don"t have to pay the suggested amount, but you must pay something.

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