The Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia’s largest art
museum, opened November 9, 1952, as the Huntington Galleries. By
1987, when the name was changed to the Huntington Museum of Art,
the museum’s art collection had grown to more than 15,000
objects. The museum is located on more than 50 acres on McCoy
Road in the Park Hills section of Huntington, with two nature
trails and a subtropical plant conservatory. With close to
70,000 square feet of space, it hosts traveling exhibitions and
has permanent galleries of British silver and portraits, antique
firearms, Near East objects, and an Ohio Valley glass collection
of more than 3,000 pieces. The museum’s Daywood Collection
features such artists as Childe Hassam and Andrew Wyeth and
contains fine examples of late 19th-century and early 20th-
century American and European artwork. The museum’s James D.
Francis Art Research Library houses more than 11,000 volumes,
and its Grace Rardin Doherty Auditorium seats close to 300. Five
art studios are housed in two separ