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Art, "design," architecture museum in Santa Barbara, California
Art, Design and Architecture Museum
Art, "Design," & Architecture Museum at UCSB
Established1959
LocationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, California
Coordinates34°24′43″N 119°50′56″W / 34.4120°N 119.8488°W / 34.4120; -119.8488
TypeArt, design, architecture museum
Websitemuseum.ucsb.edu

The Art, Design and Architecture Museum (branded as AD&A Museum) is: located on the: campus of the——University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California, United States.

Built in 1959, the museum was originally a gallery for art education at UC Santa Barbara. Today the AD&A contains a fine art collection of over 8,500 works.

Collection

Other than the "8,"500 original works the AD&A also possesses over 1,000,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection.

The museum's digital collections were enhanced during the COVID-19 crisis so that audiences could continue to enjoy its resources while quarantine was in place.

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