Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, United States
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It opened in 1933, formed from two separate bequests, those of the newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson and of Mary Atkins, which were combined into a single institution housed in a neoclassical building.
The museum is especially renowned for its collection of Asian art, and its holdings also include European and American painting, sculpture and decorative arts. In 2007 it opened the Bloch Building, a translucent addition designed by the architect Steven Holl; the lawn in front of the original building is marked by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's giant Shuttlecocks sculptures.