Qualla: Chrysler Museum of Art https://qualla.com/chrysler-museum-of-art en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/chrysler-museum-of-art-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Chrysler Museum of Art https://qualla.com/chrysler-museum-of-art Chrysler Museum of Art: Introduction https://qualla.com/chrysler-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Gosscj at English Wikipedia, Public domain. John Russell of the New York Times once described the Chrysler Museum's collection as "one any museum in the world would kill for." That is a bold claim for any institution, especially one tucked between downtown Norfolk and the Ghent district, on the lawn at the head of the Hague Inlet. The museum's holdings span 5,000 years of world history - over 35,000 objects - including the final marble sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini, one of the world's greatest collections of art glass, and major paintings by Veronese, Velazquez, Cezanne, and Matisse. The way this came to be is itself a piece of cultural history: a Norfolk-born woman named Jean Outland married an automotive heir named Walter P. Chrysler Jr., and when he was looking for a home for his enormous private collection, she suggested her hometown.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/chrysler-museum-of-art-wp/dq99-chrysler-museum-of-art-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chrysler Museum of Art: From Civic Museum to Chrysler Gift https://qualla.com/chrysler-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Lucas Cranach the Younger / Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop / Lucas Cranach the Elder, Public domain. The Chrysler Museum opened in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences - a modest civic institution typical of Depression-era American cities. Then in 1971, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., son of the Chrysler Corporation founder, donated most of his vast art collection to the muse...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/chrysler-museum-of-art-wp/dq99-chrysler-museum-of-art-berninis-last-marble.mp3 0:06 3 full Chrysler Museum of Art: The Glass Studio https://qualla.com/chrysler-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Joquinn77, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Chrysler's glass collection is one of the world's greatest - more than 10,000 objects, including outstanding works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. To complement the collection, the museum opened the Perry Glass Studio in 2011, an adjacent 9,200-square-foot working glass facility of...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/chrysler-museum-of-art-wp/dq99-chrysler-museum-of-art-moses-myers-house.mp3 0:06 5 full Chrysler Museum of Art: The Library and the Mark Twain Speech https://qualla.com/chrysler-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Lucas Cranach the Younger / Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop / Lucas Cranach the Elder, Public domain. The Jean Outland Chrysler Library, named for Walter's wife, holds material on the history of world art with special emphasis on the museum's permanent collection. In 1977, it acquired the library of M. Knoedler & Co., a London art dealer - major historical reference volumes, peri...

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