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| The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art---Alabama's only university art museum---is home to Auburn University's superb collection of American and European art. The nearly 40,000 square foot building offers all the amenities of a modern art museum to thousands of visitors every year including eight exhibition galleries, an auditorium, a museum shop and a bistro. Among the museum's many archeticutural features are exterior and interior finishes of Italian travertine stone, a vaulted rotunda that features a Dale Chihuly glass chandelier and a grand gallery with exhibition areas for decorative arts and small-scale sculpture. The museum gardens present a series of formal gardens that incorporate walking paths, water features and fountains.
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