Toledo Museum Wins Double Award
@ToledoMuseum won USA Today's 10Best Best Art Museum and Best Free Museum awards, earning 129 likes and 13K views. Meanwhile, @lacma668 teased David Geffen Galleries opening April 2026 with 320 likes and 24K views. @Granite_Stater1 raved about New Hampshire's Wright WWII Museum featuring a Sherman tank and Time Tunnel exhibit.
This marks the second consecutive year the Toledo Museum of Art has been named Best Art Museum and Best Free Museum in the USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. Nominees are chosen by a panel of experts and editors, with the final winners decided by a public vote. The museum triumphed over a field of 20 contenders, including major institutions like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Founded in 1901, the Toledo Museum of Art has offered free general admission to its collection since it first opened. The museum's collection features more than 30,000 pieces of art, including works by masters like El Greco, Claude Monet, and Frans Hals, housed in over 40 galleries on a 37-acre campus. It also features a world-renowned glass collection and offers free daily glassblowing demonstrations. The new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, will feature about 110,000 square feet of gallery space. The April 19, 2026, opening will be the culmination of a two-decade campus transformation that previously saw the addition of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (2008) and the Resnick Exhibition Pavilion (2010). The inaugural installation in the Geffen Galleries will unconventionally organize art from different cultures and eras around the theme of global bodies of water, such as the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. The elevated, 900-foot-long building spans Wilshire Boulevard, allowing art to be presented on a single level without prescribed pathways. In New Hampshire, the Wright Museum of World War II focuses on the American experience from 1939-1945, particularly the home front. Its "Time Tunnel" exhibit walks visitors through those years, capturing pop culture and the national mood with evocative displays. Beyond the home front exhibits, the Wright Museum also maintains a collection of fully-operational military vehicles from the era. The collection includes jeeps, half-tracks, and an M4 Sherman tank, which are often used in local parades.
