Midwest Museum of American Art
Midwest Museum of American Art is a museum in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 228 m. Bald Hill stands 334 m to the north-northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Elk, a artwork 0.1 miles away. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway runs past it. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
a showcase of the 19th and 20th century American Art, with original paintings by Grandma Moses and Norman Rockwell.
The story
The Midwest Museum of American Art is a non-profit public art museum located in downtown Elkhart, Indiana, United States. The museum's 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) space houses a collection focusing on 19th and 20th century American art. Its collection includes selections of Abstract expressionism, American Impressionism, the Chicago Imagists, Overbeck art pottery, Pop art, Regionalism, the Ashcan School, and Western art (art from the American West). Artworks in the collection include works by Norman Rockwell, Hans Hofmann, Edward Moran, Roger Brown, Grant Wood, Arthur Bowen Davies, Ralph Albert Blakelock and many others. Each fall the museum hosts the Elkhart Juried Regional competition. The museum publishes a quarterly newsletter and published its first Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in 2004.
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Dates from 1981.
Wikidata Q6843409, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Division Street Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- Kardzhali Park: 0.3 mi
- Town Green: 0.5 mi
- Lundquist Bicentennial Park: 0.5 mi
- Island Park: 0.6 mi
- The National New York Central Railroad Museum: 0.2 mi
- Ruthmere Historical Museum: 0.7 mi
- Ruthmere-Havilah Beardsley House: 0.7 mi
- Elkhart Environmental Center: 1.9 mi
- Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum: 1.9 mi
- Quilt Garden: 0.2 mi
- Wellfield Botanic Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Sensory Garden at Cobus Park: 4.6 mi
- Courtyard: 7.0 mi
- Community Garden: 9.4 mi
- Elk: 0.1 mi
- Wooden dog: 0.5 mi
- Elkhart County CVB: 3.6 mi
- Dream Chaser: 9.7 mi
- John Yoder Memorial Sculpture: 10.6 mi
- Boot Lake Nature Preserve: 5.0 mi
- Elkhart Bog Nature Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Lieber Nature Preserve: 8.7 mi
- Vernon and Velma Radebaugh Memorial Plant Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Jesse & Agnes Riegsecker Natural Area: 11.2 mi
- Elkhart Police&Fire Department Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Time Capsule 2027: 0.5 mi
- Havilah Beardsley Monument: 0.7 mi
- Heron Monument: 11.0 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument: 11.1 mi
- Confluence of The Little Elkhart and St. Joseph Rivers: 0.6 mi
- St. Joseph County Fairgrounds: 13.6 mi
- Birthday Chair: 14.9 mi
- Amish Acres: 16.6 mi
- Arboretum: 23.0 mi
- Riverbend Picnic Area: 10.0 mi
- Meadows Picnic Area: 10.0 mi
- Picnic Area 5: 10.0 mi
- Picnic Area 4: 10.1 mi
- Picnic Area 3: 10.1 mi
- Mt. Pumpkin: 10.6 mi
- Buzzard Hill: 17.0 mi
- Sugar Hill: 19.5 mi
- Bald Hill: 20.0 mi
- Vargo Hill: 21.0 mi
- Builders Association-Elkhart,: 2.7 mi
- Rest Area Trucks Only: 16.5 mi
- Pleasant Lake East Beach: 10.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Midwest Museum of American Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | NNE 22° | 334 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mount Misery | NNE 28° | 317 m | 21.2 mi |
| Buzzard Hill | SSE 152° | 300 m | 17.0 mi |
| Mt. Pumpkin | ESE 115° | 287 m | 10.6 mi |
| Sugar Hill | SE 135° | 273 m | 19.5 mi |
| Vargo Hill | WSW 247° | 270 m | 21.0 mi |
| Reeves Hill | WSW 248° | 264 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:20 | 19:56 |
| June solstice | 06:10 | 20:40 | 21:23 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:06 | 19:43 |
| December solstice | 08:08 | 16:32 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 28 | 38 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Goshen 3SW, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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