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===Colby College Museum of Art===
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[[File:Colby College Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|The [[Colby College Museum of Art]] in 2016.]]

The college's Museum of Art was founded in 1959 with the building of the Mayflower Hill Campus. Admission is free to the museum, which serves both as a teaching resource for Colby College and as an active cultural institution for the residents of Maine and visitors to the state. It is notable for an entire wing dedicated to works by American painter [[Alex Katz]], a particularly strong collection of American art, and its major outdoor sculptures by [[Richard Serra]] and [[Sol LeWitt]]. The museum is part of the Bixler Art and Music Center, a building named in honor of President [[J. Seelye Bixler]] (1942–1960) in recognition of his visionary support for the arts at Colby.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/museum/about/index.cfm|title=Director's Welcome – Colby College Museum of Art|access-date=7 December 2016}}</ref> The most recent addition to the museum was the Alfond-Lunder wing, opened in 2013 to display the recently donated Lunder Collection of American Art.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2012/12/19/living/colby-college-to-open-greatly-expanded-art-museum-in-july-2013/|title=Colby College to open greatly expanded art museum in July 2013|first1=Emily|last1=Burnham|first2=B. D. N.|last2=Staff|date=19 December 2012|access-date=7 December 2016}}</ref> The gallery space in the museum now exceeds 38,000 square feet, surpassing the [[Portland Museum of Art]] and making it the largest art [[List of museums in Maine|museum in Maine]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |date=July 8, 2013 |title=Welcome To The Largest Art Museum In Maine |work=HuffPost |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/colby-college-art-museum-largest-in-maine_n_3560897.html}}</ref>