Hood Museum of Art
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Hood Museum of Art is a museum in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 159 m. North Peak stands 702 m to the east-northeast, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Maffei Arts Plaza, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Connecticut River Byway runs past it.
The story
The Hood Museum of Art is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth was in 1772, making the collection among the oldest and largest, at about 65,000 objects, of any college or university museum in the United States. The Hood Museum of Art officially opened in the fall of 1985. The original building was designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Floyd. In March 2016, the museum closed for a major expansion and renovation designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The museum reopened to the public on January 26, 2019, with more gallery and office spaces as well as a welcoming new atrium. It also added the Bernstein Center for Object Study, which houses three smart object-study rooms, an object-staging room, and curatorial and security offices, all accessible to Dartmouth faculty and students via an entrance set parallel to the doors to the galleries themselves. As a teaching museum, the Hood Museum of Art's mission is to "enable and cultivate transformative encounters with works of artistic and cultural significance to advance critical thinking and enrich people's lives." It offers support to the Dartmouth curriculum across many disciplines and majors while encouraging co-curricular engagement through workshops such as Museum Collecting 101 and the undergraduate-driven Museum Club. The museum is free and open to all. The Hood Museum's collection is drawn from a wide range of cultures and historical periods. The 65,000 objects in the museum's care represent the diverse artistic traditions of six continents, including, broadly, Native American, European and American, Asian, Indigenous Australian, African, and Melanesian art. The museum hosts both collection-driven and loan-based traveling exhibitions. Among the museum's most important holdings are six Assyrian stone reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II (about 900 BCE), the complete archive of photojournalist James Nachtwey, and the fresco by José Clemente Orozco titled The Epic of American Civilization (1932–34), which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2013, located nearby in Dartmouth's Baker-Berry Library.
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Dates from 1985.
Wikidata Q3140304, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- On the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 4.8 mi off the Crossroad of Vermont Byway
- 20.0 mi off the Scenic Route 100 Byway
- 21.2 mi off the River Heritage Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Viewing Spot · 1 mi
- Norman Overlook · 1 mi
- Balch Hill · 2 mi
- Indian Ridge · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Maffei Arts Plaza: 0.0 mi
- Dartmouth Green: 0.1 mi
- School Street Sustainability Park: 0.2 mi
- Baker Lawn: 0.2 mi
- College Park: 0.3 mi
- Ivy Pointe Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Angelo Tanzi Natural Area: 0.8 mi
- Mink Brook Nature Reserve: 0.8 mi
- South Esker Natural Area: 0.8 mi
- Norwich Nature Area: 1.1 mi
- Velvet Rocks: 1.2 mi
- Balch Hill: 1.5 mi
- Indian Ridge: 1.9 mi
- Colburn Hill: 2.0 mi
- Flanders Hill: 2.1 mi
- Bouldering: 2.7 mi
- Holt's Ledge: 10.7 mi
- Winslow Ledge: 11.6 mi
- The Palisades: 16.2 mi
- Lasso Ledge: 18.9 mi
- BASIC: The First User-Friendly Computer Programming Language: 1.3 mi
- Soldiers' Monument: 3.8 mi
- Vermont Gateway to Green Mountain State: 4.0 mi
- Cummings Dam: 4.3 mi
- Mascoma River Dam Number 2: 4.6 mi
- Mink Brook Swimming Area: 0.7 mi
- Shakoma Beach: 8.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 8.6 mi
- Goose Pond Park Beach: 9.6 mi
- Goose Pond Dam Beach: 10.0 mi
- Dartmouth Panels: 0.0 mi
- Refuge: 0.0 mi
- Fountain Figure: 0.0 mi
- Perdido: 0.1 mi
- Inuksuk: 0.2 mi
- Montshire Museum of Science: 0.9 mi
- Hartford Historical Society: 3.8 mi
- Main Street Museum: 3.9 mi
- Vermont Toy Museum: 7.1 mi
- Hughes Barn Museum: 8.6 mi
- Tipping Rock: 3.6 mi
- Lyman Point: 3.9 mi
- Train: Boston & Maine Engine 494: 4.0 mi
- Willard Covered Bridge: 8.1 mi
- Lyme-East Thetford Bridge: 9.2 mi
- Union Village Covered Bridge: 6.2 mi
- Willard Twin Covered Bridge: 8.1 mi
- Sayre Bridge: 9.2 mi
- Middle Covered Bridge: 12.8 mi
- South Pomfret Covered Bridge: 12.8 mi
- The Chutes: 8.0 mi
- The Chutes: 8.0 mi
- Litte Dog Falls: 10.6 mi
- Sumner Falls: 10.6 mi
- Big Dog Falls: 10.7 mi
- Life Sciences Greenhouse: 0.5 mi
- Canillas Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- South Royalton Community Garden: 13.9 mi
- Garden at Tracy Library: 25.0 mi
- Area 1: 7.3 mi
- Area 2: 7.9 mi
- Goose Pond Park Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
- Hippy Hill: 24.5 mi
- Rest Area I-91 (South Bound): 6.3 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center - Sharon: 7.2 mi
- Springfield Rest Area I-89 (North Bound): 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of Hood Museum of Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Peak | ENE 73° | 702 m | 7.7 mi |
| South Peak | E 80° | 693 m | 7.2 mi |
| Gile Mountain | NNW 332° | 565 m | 6.9 mi |
| Griggs Mountain | WNW 294° | 518 m | 4.7 mi |
| Shaker Mountain | SE 135° | 515 m | 7.9 mi |
| Morrill Mountain | NNW 337° | 504 m | 8.7 mi |
| Moose Mountain | ENE 70° | 503 m | 8.0 mi |
| Mount Tug | ESE 117° | 489 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:51 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:28 | 16:16 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 24 | 34 | 47 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 50 | 39 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hanover, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
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