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pedestrian-friendly plaza and new museum entrance connects the addition to parking and the
Evansville Museum Transportation Center. The expansion, which began with repairs, renovations and additions to its existing building was completed at a cost of $ 14.1 million. The museum re-opened its doors to the public on February 7, 2014. A key piece of the project, the new Koch Immersive Theater features a 40-foot diameter domed screen with a 360 degree digital projection.
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The first building selected for the museum was the historic Barnes-Armstrong
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In 1938 there were efforts to move the museum to a new building. However, it was not until the 1950s when
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traces the history of transportation and features the
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Evansville Museum's permanent art collection of American and European works dating from the 16th through the 20th centuries is exhibited in the Crescent Galleries which highlight the themes of landscape, still life, genre works, and portraiture.
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