Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM)

On a June day in 1910, Mrs. Della Foote Perkins helped establish the Art Association of Grand Rapids with a city-wide mandate: build a permanent collection, open to all citizens. The institution that grew from that founding now occupies a 125,000-square-foot building in downtown Grand Rapids — certified, when it opened, as the world's first LEED Gold art museum. The permanent collection runs from Renaissance to contemporary work, with pieces by Picasso, Calder, Jacob Lawrence, and Gordon Parks on the walls.