McNay Art Museum

サンアントニオ

The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in the U.S. state of Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-room Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion that sits on 23 acres that are landscaped with fountains, broad lawns and a Japanese-inspired garden and fishpond. McNay was an American painter and art teacher who inherited a substantial oil fortune upon the death of her father. The museum was named after her, and has been expanded to include galleries of medieval and Renaissance artwork and a larger collection of 20th-century European and American modernist work. She built a home in 1927 designed by Atlee Ayres and his son Robert M. Ayres. Upon her death, the house was bequeathed to the City of San Antonio to house the museum.The museum focuses primarily on 19th- and 20th-century European and American art by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Mary Cassatt, and Edward Hopper. The collection today consists of over 20,000 objects and is one of the finest collections of contemporary art and sculpture in the Southwestern United States. The museum also is home to the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, which is one of the premiere collections of its kind in the U.S., and a research library with over 30,000 volumes. More recently, the McNay Art Museum recently added the Stieren Center, built by internationally renowned architect Jean-Paul Viguier, to display their Modern collection.

New Haven Museum and Historical Society

ニューヘイブン (コネチカット州)

The New Haven Museum and Historical Society was founded in 1862 in New Haven, Connecticut for the purposes of preserving and presenting the region’s history. The museum has a collection containing art, photography, furniture and other artifacts from throughout New Haven’s history and regularly presents programs and special exhibits.The Museum features exhibitions on New Haven, La Amistad, local art and decorative arts, with collections associated with Eli Whitney, Winchester, Yale, East Rock, Noah Webster, Benedict Arnold as well as changing exhibitions. Educational programs provide interactive inquiry-based learning on local history.The Whitney Research Library at the museum contains manuscript and archival holdings relevant to the New Haven area from the time of the first settlement to the present. The collection includes rare books, more than 300 manuscript collections, including personal papers, business and institutional records, court and municipal documents, maps, 4,000 architectural drawings and resources, account books and a collection of approximately 75,000 photographs. It also contains approximately 30,000 printed titles including monographs and pamphlets. The library also includes genealogical materials, vital statistics and colonial and town records, passenger arrival lists to American ports, Federal census schedules for New Haven County on microfilm and a complete set of New Haven city directories from 1840.The Colonial revival style current building was built in 1929 and was designed by J. Frederick Kelly. The building includes a number of artifacts from demolished New Haven houses including a mantelpiece and urns from the Nathan Smith house and a mantelpiece from the Benedict Arnold house. The Ingersoll Room in the museum is decorated with furniture and portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries documenting the home and life of New Haven’s Ingersoll family.

ニューヨーク公共図書館

ニューヨーク

ニューヨーク公共図書館（New York Public Library、略称：NYPL） は、アメリカ合衆国ニューヨーク市に所在する公共図書館。私立の図書館としては世界屈指の規模をもち、年間の予算額3億4000万ドル（約340億円）、年間来館者数は約1700万人にのぼる。 4つの中央図書館に加え、ニューヨーク市内マンハッタン区、ブロンクス区、およびスタテンアイランド区の各所に大小合わせて88の地域分館と、研究目的のために公開されている4つのリサーチ・ライブラリー（研究図書館、日本でいう専門図書館にあたる）を有する。 名称には「パブリック（公共）」という語が含まれているが、設置主体はニューヨーク市ではなくあくまで民間の非営利組織 で、年間予算の約5分の1程度を民間からの寄付でまかなっている。利用は原則として無料で、ニューヨーク市に在住あるいは勤務している者であれば誰でも会員になることができる。 別組織であるブルックリン区のブルックリン公共図書館 、およびクイーンズ区のクイーンズ公共図書館 の図書館システムを合わせると、ニューヨーク市全体では200以上の分館がある。 インターネットを積極的に活用した情報発信や数多くの教育プログラムを開催しており、ニューヨークにおける総合的な教育・研究機関として機能している。グーテンベルク聖書やカポーティの草稿を始め、歴史的にも貴重な蔵書を多数所蔵している。 本館はマンハッタン区ミッドタウン5番街と42丁目のブライアント・パーク内にあり、その豪奢なボザール建築で観光名所としても知られている。1911年に竣工した。トレードマークはライオンの Leoである。

フィルブルック美術館

タルサ (オクラホマ州)

フィルブルック美術館（Philbrook Museum of Art）は、オクラホマ州タルサにある美術館である。

Telfair Museums

サバンナ (ジョージア州)

Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair , a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy. The museum currently contains a collection of over 4,500 American and European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, housed in three buildings: the 1818 Telfair Academy ; the 1816 Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, which are both National Historic Landmarks designed by British architect William Jay in the early nineteenth century; and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 2006.

Akron Art Museum

アクロン (オハイオ州)

The Akron Art Museum is an art museum in Akron, Ohio, United States. The museum first opened on February 1, 1922, as the Akron Art Institute. It was located in two borrowed rooms in the basement of the public library. The Institute offered classes in arts appreciation which were organized by Edwin Coupland Shaw and his wife Jennifer Bond Shaw. Its first permanent home was the Akron Public Library, a Carnegie library building, from 1948 to 1981. It has grown considerably since 1922. The new museum was open to the public on July 17, 2007, and hosts visiting shows from national and international collections.

Allentown Art Museum

アレンタウン (ペンシルベニア州)

The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is an art museum located in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by noted Pennsylvania impressionist painter, Walter Emerson Baum. With its collection of over 19,000 works of art, the Allentown Art Museum is a major regional art institution. In addition, its library and archives of more than 16,000 titles and 40 current periodicals make it an important regional cultural resource.

Columbia Museum of Art

コロンビア (サウスカロライナ州)

The Columbia Museum of Art is an art museum in the American city of Columbia, South Carolina.

アメリカ合衆国国務省

ワシントンD.C.

アメリカ合衆国国務省（アメリカがっしゅうこくこくむしょう、英語: United States Department of State）は、アメリカ合衆国政府において外交政策を実施する行政機関であり、他国の外務省に相当する。国務省は、国務長官が統括する。 長官（Secretary）及び副長官（Deputy Secretary）の下に、分野ごとに次官（Under Secretary）が配置され、さらに次官の下に次官補（Assistant Secretary）が配置されている。国内だけで約5,000人の職員がいる。2009年発足のバラク・オバマ政権から副長官が2人体制となり、1人が外交政策全般を、もう1人が省内の組織管理を担当することになった。