Photos: Joslyn Art Museum through the years
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From the Archives: Sarah Joslyn (copy)
1929 PHOTO: This photo, dated Aug. 1, shows the girders of the concert hall going into place at the Joslyn Memorial Art Museum. Omaha Central High is in the background.
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1930s PHOTO: Joslyn Memorial Building during the 1930s.
From the Archives: Sarah Joslyn -1940
1940 PHOTO: The Joslyn Memorial Art Museum was finished in 1931 at a cost of about $3 million, a gift from Sarah Joslyn in memory of her husband, businessman George A. Joslyn. This photo was taken on Feb. 28, 1940. The museum dropped the word "Memorial" from its name in 1987.
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1941 PHOTO: An unidentified child looks at the portrait of George Joslyn at the Joslyn Art Museum during art week in December 1941.
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1949 PHOTO: The print room at the Joslyn. People could view the presses and the prints and were allowed to actually use the presses for their work. The lithograph press, left, and the Washington Hand Press, right, were gifts from the Western Newspaper Union. The etch press, which Mr. Kingman is using, was a gift from Alice T. McCoun.
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1953 PHOTO: Five-year-old Joanne Lacey at the Joslyn Art Museum in 1953.
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1957 PHOTO: Miss Borg and school students tour the museum in 1957.
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1982 PHOTO: A Bagels and Bach concert in the Joslyn's Fountain Court. The classical music concert series, which included a light brunch of bagels and toppings, was held on the first Sunday of the month for more than 25 years.
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1993 PHOTO: Exterior sheets of pink Georgian marble arrive at the construction site for the Joslyn Art Museum's addition. Unloading the panels are ironworkers from Davis Erection Co. in Gretna.
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1993 PHOTO: Construction of the Joslyn Art Museum addition. Exterior sheets of pink Georgian marble arrive at the worksite. Unloading panels are, from left: Vyrl Blum, an ironworker from Gretna, and Bill McDonald, an ironworker from Fremont. Both work for Davis Erection Co. in Gretna.
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1993 PHOTO: Construction on the Joslyn Art Museum addition. The view is looking west on Nov. 18, 1993.
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1994 PHOTO: The new atrium between the old and new buildings at the Joslyn Art Museum is this June 1994 photo. Bill Moore, an employee of Joe Kapcheck Granite and Marble Co. out of Chicago, works on piece of granite that will be put on the nearby wall. The new museum space added seven galleries, with over 14,000 square feet of space.
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1994 PHOTO: An aerial view of the Joslyn Art Museum addition, which was completed in 1994 at a cost of $15.95 million. The addition bears the name "The Walter & Suzanne Scott Pavilion," after major supporters of the museum.
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2002 PHOTO: Jeremy Biales, left, and Bill Borden work on renovation of the staircase at the east entrance of the Joslyn Art Museum. Mid-Continental Restoration Co. workers were removing the marble, leveling the concrete underneath and replacing or returning the marble, depending on its condition.
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2002 PHOTO: The Walter & Suzanne Scott Pavilion at the Joslyn Art Museum.
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2003 PHOTO: Gary Hayden, left, from Chihuly Studio, and John Landon, a freelance design consultant, work on installing a blown-glass piece by Dale Chihuly in the atrium of the Joslyn Art Museum on Dec. 17, 2003. The men were installing the 25-foot chandelier by Chihuly, which was part of a 2000 exhibition and a gift to the museum from Suzanne and Walter Scott.
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2004 PHOTO: Aerial view of the Joslyn Art Museum, front.
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2007: The Matt Wallace Band performs at the first Jazz on the Green concert of the summer at the Joslyn Art Museum on July 5.
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2011: The thunderbird theme, shown here in the Joslyn Art Museum's Fountain Court, is carried out throughout the museum. This photo was taken in 2011, the year Joslyn celebrated its 80th birthday.
There's a science behind cleaning Joslyn Art Museum sculpture (copy)
2013 PHOTO: To clean “Chihuly: Inside and Out,” the 15,000-pound, 2,080-piece glass sculpture at the Joslyn Art Museum, Dave Pugh takes just four or five pieces of glass at a time off their stainless steel studs, wraps each and labels it, then wipes them down them with a wet cloth and a dry cloth before carefully replacing them. The yearly process takes about a week. The Chihuly piece was created in 2000
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2013 PHOTO: Docent Judy Schafer, in blue, leads one of several groups on a stroller tour of the permanent collection at the Joslyn Art Museum on Jan. 16, 2013.
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2013 PHOTO: Mom's and little ones enjoy Edgar Degas' "Little Dancer," during a docent-guided stroller tour of the permanent collection.
Rembrandt painting makes its debut at Joslyn – again
2014 PHOTO: Visitors view the newly restored "Portrait of Dirck van Os" by Rembrandt van Rijn in the Joslyn Art Museum's Hitchcock Foundation Gallery. One of the world's foremost authorities on Rembrandt, Ernst van de Wetering. recategorized the painting from "School of Rembrandt" to an actual Rembrandt.
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2017 PHOTO: Scott Orr, left, building and grounds manager, and Kevin Salzman, installation and design manager, move artwork from the museum vault back to the European collection galleries in April 2017. The museum had renovated its European collection galleries.
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2017 PHOTO: Dave Villarreal, right, and Josh Villarreal, both with Allied Construction Services, at work in one of the European collection galleries. The museum had renovated its European collection galleries.
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