Museum sold to the city in 1661 and public since 1671 (now Kunstmuseum Basel). The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened on 24 May 1683 as the world's first university art museum. Its first building was built in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence was initially conceived as offices for the Florentine civil service (hence the name), but evolved into a display place for many of the paintings and sculpture collected by the Medici family or commissioned by them. After the house of Medici was extinguished, the art treasures
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery became an independent corporation and changed its name to the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery. In 2008, the Museum opened a second, smaller location in downtown Greenville at Heritage Green, but due to a lack of visitors they closed this again in 2017. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery The Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery is the art collection of the Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. It was established in 1951 and focuses on sacred art, mainly European Old Master paintings, but also smaller collections of sculpture, furniture, architectural elements, textile, and ancient artifacts. As of