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North Carolina Museum of Art Winston-Salem (formerly SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art)
Museum· 1956· Winston-Salem

North Carolina Museum of Art Winston-Salem (formerly SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art)

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Contemporary art center founded 1956 as the Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine Arts, housed since the 1970s in the 1929 English hunt-style mansion of textile industrialist James G. Hanes (1886-1972), who willed his 32-acre estate to the gallery; renamed North Carolina Museum of Art Winston-Salem by the legislature in 2023.

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  • ·Founded in 1956 as the Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine Arts
  • ·Housed since the 1970s in the 1929 English hunt-style mansion of textile industrialist James G. Hanes, who willed the estate to the gallery
  • ·Expanded with a 24,500-sq-ft addition in 1990 to host major national contemporary artists

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