Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History
Barrick Museum of Natural History
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found: Painting, an Asian American perspective, 1994:t.p. (Marjorie Barrick Museum)
found: Off. museum dir., 1994:p. 619 (under Las Vegas (Nevada): Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History; parent institution: University of Nevada)
found: A cultural resource and geological study ... 1999:t.p. (Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
found: Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art website, accessed March 18, 2022:about (Founded in 1967, initially connected to Nevada's Desert Research Institute and the science faculty; housed collections of scientific specimens and provided natural history exhibition space; moved in the late 1970s from its original building to its current home in a former gymnasium on the UNLV campus; the focus on artifacts and specimens gradually expanded to include exhibitions of contemporary art by artists from America and abroad; it adopted the name of local philanthropist Marjorie Barrick in 1989; its current identity as an art museum was consolidated in 2012 when it became part of the UNLV College of Fine Arts)
found: Wikipedia, accessed March 18, 2022(Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art; formerly known as the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History; in 2011, the Barrick closed its doors to undergo a change of hands with departments and ceased to be affiliated with the Harry Reid Center and Department of Archaeology; became a part of the College of Fine Arts at UNLV; reopened in 2012 as a contemporary art museum)
notfound: Int'l dir. of arts, 1993: v. 1, p. 786 (under Las Vegas (U.S.A.): Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada)
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1997-07-16: new
2022-04-14: revised
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