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Museums and Cultural Venues

Individual architectural works built to house art, performance or public exhibition, including museums, concert and opera houses and exhibition pavilions. Belongs here: museums, performance halls and exhibition pavilions recognized as significant individual architectural works. Does not belong here: religious buildings, which are grouped under Religious and Sacred Architecture, and residential houses and villas, which are grouped under Residential Architecture.

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1. National Core Arts Standards: Visual Arts Introduction
National Coalition for Core Arts StandardsVisual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraph
Quote, Visual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraph
Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.
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