Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Richmond .

The museum opened in 1936. The museum is owned by the US state of Virginia . The museum building was designed in 1934 by the American architect Merrill Lee .

The Fabergé egg Peter the Great .

In 1947 the museum received the collection of the American entrepreneur John Lee Pratt . This collection included five Fabergé eggs . Leslie Cheek, Jr. was the museum director from 1948 to 1968.

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Commons : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 37 ° 33 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 77 ° 28 ′ 29.2 ″  W.