Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere and serves both Yale and the public. Founded in 1832 through John Trumbull’s gift of American Revolution paintings, it unusually retains his tomb beneath Street Hall, making it both museum and mausoleum. Its interconnected buildings include Street Hall, the 1928 Old Yale Art Gallery, and Louis Kahn’s influential 1953 modernist addition. The museum holds more than 300,000 objects spanning antiquity to the present, with major strengths in Renaissance, African, modern, and archaeological collections, and it underwent a major restoration and expansion completed in 2012.

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