The Toledo Museum of Art stands in the Old West End of Toledo. The glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey founded it in 1901, and it moved into its main building in 1912. Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter designed that building. The infobox lists the style as Greek Revival, while a New York Times review quoted in the article calls it Beaux-Arts. The Peristyle was added in 1933 and seats 1,750 under 28 Ionic columns.
Frank Gehry designed the Center for the Visual Arts, added in the 1990s. SANAA designed the Glass Pavilion, which opened in August 2006 with curved glass walls imported from China. Its budget was $30 million, funded largely by Toledo's largest public fundraising drive.
The article gives the campus as 40 acres (16 ha) and 280,000 square feet (26,000 m²). The Glass Pavilion holds the museum's glass collection and hosts about 700 public glassblowing exhibitions a year. The museum had 383,685 visitors in 2019.
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