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Exploring The Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum is situated on the north bank of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. Often called The Figge, it has a comprehensive collection and acts as the primary art museum for eastern Iowa and western Illinois. The Figge collaborates closely with several regional universities and colleges (see below) as an art resource and collection hub for various higher education programs.

The museum's new building was designed by British architect David Chipperfield and opened to the public on August 6, 2005. The Figge was among Chipperfield's first architectural projects in the United States. The construction cost was $47 million, with $13 million donated by the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Foundation. Chipperfield also designed the east building of the Saint Louis Art Museum, which opened in 2013. In 2023, Chipperfield received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture’s highest honor.

Today's Figge Art Museum is the successor to the city-owned Davenport Art Museum, which originally began as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery in 1925. The museum's initial collection was donated by Charles Ficke (1850–1931), a successful lawyer and former mayor who collected art from around the world. Robert E. Harsche, then Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, noted that, to his knowledge, no American public art gallery had "started out with so large a number of important paintings as a nucleus."

Web: https://www.figgeartmuseum.org/
Address: 225 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa