The Andy Warhol Museum

The Andy Warhol Museum

The Andy Warhol Museum in 2020
Location within Pittsburgh
Established	May 13, 1994
Location	117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates	40°26′54″N 80°00′09″W / 40.4484°N 80.0024°W / 40.4484; -80.0024
Type	Art museum
Visitors	106,396 (2010)
Director	Patrick Moore[1]
Curator	José Carlos Diaz[2]
Website	warhol.org
Pittsburgh Landmark – PHLF
Official name	Andy Warhol Museum (Volkwein's, Frick & Lindsay Building)
Designated	2000[3]

The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist.^[4] The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.

The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA).^[5]

The museum is located in an 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m²) facility on seven floors. Containing 17 galleries, the museum features 900 paintings, close to 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, 77 sculptures, 4,000 photographs, and over 4,350 Warhol films and videotaped works. Its most recent operating budget (2010) was $6.1 million. In addition to its Pittsburgh location the museum has sponsored 56 traveling exhibits that have attracted close to nine million visitors in 153 venues worldwide since 1996.^[6]