The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts is Stanford University's official campus art museum, originally opened to the public in 1894 as the Leland Stanford Jr. Museum, one of the first campus art museums in the country to showcase a private general art collection. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which damaged many of the museum's holdings, museum operations ceased, but in 1999, the museum was reopened in honor of donors Iris and B. Gerald Cantor. Today, it showcases more than 38,000 works from around the world from the ancient era to the present day, including significant collections of African, Oceanic and Indonesian, Native American, and Mesoamerican historic artworks. The center is also home to the largest collection of Rodin works outside of Paris' Musee Rodin, including more than 400 pieces. An adjacent facility holds the museum's Anderson Collection, which showcases post-WWII American artworks.

328 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305, Phone: 650-723-4177

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