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The American Folk Art Museum is the leading urban center of folk art scholarship in the nation. Founded in 1961, this museum's collections, workshops and exhibitions focus mainly on American culture as expressed through folk art. The American Folk Art Museum was formerly known as the Museum of American Folk Art. The museum’s permanent exhibit has a diverse range of objects, quilts, hunting decoys, portraits, decorative pottery and boxes, weathervanes and religious objects, paintings and crucifixes; basically, artwork that you most likely won’t find in other museums of American art.
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