Allen Memorial Art Museum — Attraction in Oberlin

"Challenge". This is a local museum for me. It is a great museum and its attached to the local music and arts college college. This is an awesome Museum and the college is rated the top five arts and Musical colleges around the US students from all over the country come just to attend this college. Aside from the college and Museum this place is directly in the middle of town of Oberlin Ohio and has one of the oldest theaters right across the street! It is just been recently remodeled by the great comedian. There's also some other old shops around in the buildings and plenty of other culture cuisine options in the town. There's a great park down the road from the museum and it's just all around a great little town. Come check it out! Best part about the Arts Museum here is it free of...

The Allen art museum is designed to look like an Italian palazzo. The older portion of the building certainly shows this, with a central courtyard with embellished ceiling and upper-story arcades. The addition is rather ugly from the outside, but has very good light distribution and maximizes display space. The art is well-curated, with a rotation of items on display that encompass the wide variety of visual arts throughout the ages. There is stuff by artists that you would not expect to find in a small-town museum. A very manageable, enjoyable museum The museum also owns the Weltzheimer/Johnson House a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian building that is open for...

Went there for the first time today and was excited to see some art for free. The check-in staff member was very kind and helpful when we visited. The security guards on the other hand were a bit much. We had not been in the museum for longer than 5 minutes and the security guards had already accused us of touching the paintings, mind you we’re all old enough to know how to act appropriately in public spaces being college students and all. We then proceeded to be followed throughout the rest of our visit. The atmosphere was too quiet and we felt like if we talked too much we might get scolded again. The art was nice, but most likely won’t be...