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The '''Art Institute of Chicago''', founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and [[list of largest art museums|largest art museums]] in the world. It is based in the [[Art Institute of Chicago Building]] in [[Chicago]]'s [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]].
 
Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5&nbsp;million people annually.<ref name="ArtnewsApril2014">{{cite journal| url=http://www.museus.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TheArtNewspaper2013_ranking.pdf| title=Visitor Figures 2013: Museum and exhibition attendance numbers compiled and analysed| newspaper=[[The Art Newspaper]]| edition=International| date=April 2014| volume=XXIII| number=256}}</ref> Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as [[Georges Seurat]]'s [[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte|''A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'']], [[Pablo Picasso]]'s ''[[The Old Guitarist]]'', [[Edward Hopper]]'s ''[[Nighthawks (painting)|Nighthawks]]'', and [[Grant Wood]]'s ''[[American Gothic]]''. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research.
 
As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and [[Ryerson & Burnham Libraries|Ryerson and Burnham Libraries]], one of the nation's largest art history and architecture libraries.
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The growth of the collection has warranted several additions to the museum's 1893 building, which was constructed for the [[World's Columbian Exposition]]. The most recent expansion, the Modern Wing designed by [[Renzo Piano]], opened in 2009 and increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet, making it the second-largest [[List of largest art museums in the world|second-largest]] art museum in the United States, after the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<ref name="secondlargest">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/design/14inst.html?ref=design| title=A Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove| date=May 13, 2009| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| first=Roberta| last=Smith| access-date=2011-06-13}}</ref> The Art Institute is associated with the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]], a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States.
 
In 2022, the Art1 Institute received 1,037,158 visitors, ranking it tenth in the [[List of most-visited museums in the United States]]<ref>TEA-AECOM Museum Index for 2022, published March 2023</ref>
In 2022, the Art Institute received 1,037,158 visitors, making it the [[List of most-visited art museums|51st-most visited art museum in the world]].<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The Art Newspaper| title= Exhibition and Museum Visitor Figures 2017| url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2018/03/26/arts-most-popular-exhibition-and-museum-visitor-figures-2017| date=March 26, 2018| access-date=2021-10-11}}</ref> In 2020, however, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]], the museum closed for 169 days, and attendance plunged by 78 percent from 2019 to 365,660 in 2020.<ref>{{cite news| first1=Emily| last1=Sharpe| first2=José| last2=da Silva| newspaper=The Art Newspaper| title=Visitor Figures 2020: top 100 art museums revealed as attendance drops by 77% worldwide| url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/03/30/visitor-figures-2020-top-100-art-museums-revealed-as-attendance-drops-by-77percent-worldwide| date=March 30, 2021}}</ref>
 
==History==
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