The Art, Design and Architecture Museum (branded as AD&A Museum) is a museum of the

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, located in

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, United States. Built in 1959, the museum was originally a

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for

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at UC Santa Barbara.UAM Website
Today the AD&A contains a

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art, decorative art or applied art, which also either serve some practical function (such as ...

collection of over 8,500 works.

Collection

Other than the 8,500 original works the AD&A also possesses over 1,000,000

architectural Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

drawings Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, sometimes in com ...

historic History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

photographs A photograph (also known as a photo, or more generically referred to as an ''image'' or ''picture'') is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and pra ...

writing Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of language. A writing system includes a particular set of symbols called a ''script'', as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language. Every written language ...

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s, and three-dimensional objects in the

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

and Design Collection. The museum's digital collections were enhanced during the

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so that audiences could continue to enjoy its resources while quarantine was in place.

References

External links

Art, Design & Architecture Museum
- official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Art, Design And Architecture Museum Art museums and galleries established in 1959 University of California, Santa Barbara buildings and structures University museums in California Museums in Santa Barbara County, California Art museums and galleries in California 1959 establishments in California Architecture museums in the United States Design museums in the United States Goleta, California