Collectors Humble and Extraordinaire: The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Gift

May 21 - August 14, 2011

Plains Art Museum began as the Red River Art Center in 1965 and was housed in the former Moorhead, Minnesota, post office. The Museum acquired its present name in 1975 and maintained residency in Moorhead until 1996. The Museum renovated a turn-of-the-century warehouse in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, and opened to the public in October 1997.

Plains Art Museum facility features 56,000 square feet of which 9,000 have security, climate, and light control properties. The building is fully accessible and contains the Hannaher’s, Inc. Print Studio, The Dawson Studio, Café Muse, The Store, the Goldberg Resource Library, meeting and reception space, frame shop, wood shop, visitor services center, two and a half story projection wall, performance areas and permanent collection storage and care areas.