The Indianapolis is one of the largest and the oldest art museum in the United States. It was founded by May Wright Sewall on October 11, 1883. Sewall is known as the founder of International Council for Women during her time.
The first exhibit of the museum was in 1883. The exhibit includes paintings from William Merrit Chase and Alfred Thompson Bricher. Both of them are American Artists.
The Association's first established school of art was in 1906 at Pennsylvania 16th street, Indianapolis. It was named as Herron School of Art, but in 1969, the name changed into Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 1970, the museum moved to Michigan road where it is bigger and expansions had been made and constructed.
The museum now has more than 50,000 collection from different known artists which comprise of local and international artifacts.
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