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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Category: Arts & Entertainment Museums Museums [Edit]
258 Main StRidgefield, CT 06877
(203) 438-4519
- Hours:
Tue-Sun 12 pm - 5 pm
One review for The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
1 review in English
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Review from Allison T.
Allston, MA
8/1/2008
Rad, rad, rad, rad, RAD!! (An unintelligible yet concise and accurate way to describe the Aldrich.)
This place is incredible. The curators are very innovative in the way they set up shows and art lovers and neophytes alike can always expect to find something tittilating, controversial, and often unexpected. This entire museum will challenge your concepts of aesthetics and will most likely flip whatever definitions of "art" you might have, on their head. So go go go!
Should you be passing through this is a must-stop.Listed in: Art F--s
Specialties
The Aldrich is one of the few independent, non-collecting contemporary art museums in the United States, and the only museum devoted to contemporary art in Connecticut. Founded on Ridgefield's historic Main Street in 1964, the Museum concentrates its exhibition program on solo exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists, complemented by acclaimed gallery-based education programs that use the work on view to help adults, families, and over 7,000 students annually to connect to our world through contemporary art
History
Established in 1964
The Larry Aldrich Museum was incorporated as a nonprofit and opened in November 1964 as one of the country's first museums devoted exclusively to the exhibition of contemporary art. In 1967, the Museum was renamed The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and to better focus on its founding mission to exhibit only contemporary art, the Museum's Board voted in 1981 to deaccession the Museum's permanent collection. Mr. Aldrich stayed active and involved with the Museum until his death in 2001, shortly prior to which The Aldrich's Board of Trustees, with Larry Aldrich, chairman emeritus, in attendance, had voted to proceed with a major renovation and expansion. Groundbreaking took place in April 2003, and the galleries reopened to the public in June 2004 with a new name, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
