Located on Brookings Drive at the northwest corner of Forest Park, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is a fine arts center. Founded in 1881 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, the museum is located on the campus of Washington University and is found within the university’s Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts.

The oldest art museum west of the Mississippi, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has a large collection of antiquities including Byzantine, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman works, along with a significant collection of American and European paintings from the 19th through the 21st centuries. The museum’s current home, built in 2006 and designed by Fumihiko Maki, consists of four exhibition spaces.

Address: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri, Phone: 314-935-4523

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