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Crystal Bridges Museum celebrates a successful first year

Bentonville - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is one year old today, and it's been a year marked with success above and beyond expectations.

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500,000 guests at Crystal Bridges Museum since opening last year

Bentonville - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art reached the half million mark today in terms of visitors to the museum, which opened less than a year ago.

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Crystal Bridges Museum opens its doors to the Hudson River School Special

Bentonville - For those wondering what's new at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision exhibition is now open, which features landscape paintings by masters like Durand, Bierstadt, and Cole, and that's not all.

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Artworks at Crystal Bridges Museum here today, gone tomorrow Special

Bentonville - Almost 100 pieces of light-sensitive artwork will soon be placed in the museum's vault and the "Wonder World" special exhibition will close shortly. Now is the time to visit Crystal Bridges and see this artwork while you can.

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Bentonville, Arkansas: America's 'must-see' travel destination Special

Bentonville - Travel + Leisure Magazine released its list of the twelve "Hottest Travel Destinations of 2012," and Bentonville is the only spot in America to make the list largely due to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

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Members Preview at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Special

Bentonville - Hailed as the nation's most important new art museum in a generation and filled with one of the world's best collections of American art, Crystal Bridges will officially open to the public on 11-11-11, but a members-only preview began Wednesday.

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Masterworks on loan to Philbrook coming home to Crystal Bridges Special

Bentonville - Four masterpieces loaned to the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma are now on their way home to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as the Bentonville, Arkansas-based museum prepares for opening day 11-11-11.

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Family fun at Artsfest with visual arts, music, food, and more Special

Bentonville - For a full week residents of, and visitors to, Bentonville, Arkansas, were treated to a wide array of fun events and art in all of its forms and fashions as part of ArtsFest.

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