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The Bruce Museum is a museum institution in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut with both art and science exhibition space. In 1908, Robert Moffat Bruce deeded his home to Greenwich, with the condition the space be used to house a museum. "The Bruce", as it's more familiarly known, has holdings of about 15,000 objects, including fine art, decorative art, natural history and anthropology.〔http://www.greenwichct.org/BruceMuseum/BruceMuseum.asp Town of Greenwich Web page on The Bruce, accessed on July 1, 2006〕 A second location, the Bruce Museum Seaside Center, is maintained at Greenwich Point Park, focusing on beach-related exhibits, including a touch-tank. The museum also has a "Brucemobile" with exhibits in a traveling van. The museum hosts frequent lectures and social events.〔 Members total about 2,800, and over 400 volunteers contribute a total of more than 14,000 hours of their time each year. It has 32 full-time employees and nine more part-timers.〔 The Bruce's main building at 1 Museum Drive, sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower (not open to the public) can be easily seen by drivers passing by on Interstate 95.〔 Exhibits at the museum change more than a dozen times a year. ==Art holdings== The art collection has a strong emphasis on the Cos Cob School, an Impressionist school, including paintings by Childe Hassam, Emil Carlsen and Leonard and Mina Fonda Ochtman. Sculpture includes nineteenth and twentieth-century work by Auguste Rodin, Hiram Powers, Frederick MacMonnies and George Segal.〔http://www.brucemuseum.org/collections/index.php?collection=art Bruce Museum Web site, "Collections" page, "Art" accessed on July 1, 2006〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Museum of Arts and Science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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