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The building has been in the education business since 1803, when it opened as the Abingdon Male Academy. The current structure dates to 1913. Today the William King Museum of Art runs galleries spanning Appalachian contemporary work and international fine art, maintains resident artist studios, and holds a permanent outdoor sculpture collection with a biennial competition. Its Betsy K. White Cultural Heritage Research Archive has documented over 200 handmade objects from Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee made before 1940 — one of the most thorough records of that decorative arts tradition in existence.
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