He loved sculpture, she loved gardens and since they loved each other, Frederik Meijer, the billionaire discount supermarket and gas...
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JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Octagon Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Once Washington, in the District of Columbia, was chosen as the permanent capital of the United States, its first...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Dali Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Reese met at a concert in Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1940s and during their courtship visited a...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Gardiner Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto-Canada
Entrepreneur and businessman, George Gardiner began his personal collection of ceramics in 1976 with nothing more in mind than the decoration...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto-Ontario
Unlike most founders of private museums who become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of their immense collections and find themselves in desperate need...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
A precious jewel in the crown of the Guggenheim Foundation is the Peggy Guggenheim Collection housed in her former residence,...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
August Thyssen left his son, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza a vast fortune built on naval construction, oil, steel and armaments. The...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Marjorie Merriweather Post was the only child of Ella Merriweather and Postum Cereal Company founder, C.W.Post. Following the...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
David Lloyd Kreeger was a rare combination of entrepreneur, artist, and lover of the arts. His entrepreneurship as top...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – George Washington’s Mount Vernon
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Sailing along the Potomac River to George Washington’s beloved Georgian plantation, Mount Vernon, on Spirit Cruises’ “Spirit...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Phillips Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Among dozens of spectacular national museums and galleries in Washington, DC there are a number of exquisite private museums, each...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Beyeler Foundation Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Not only did Hildy and Ernst Beyeler love and collect contemporary art, it was their business. They ran their famous Galerie Beyeler in...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Menil Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto-Canada
Little did Dominique Schlumberger, heiress to the Schlumberger Ltd. global oil services company, dream, while growing up in Paris, that she would become the...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Kroeller – Mueller Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Helene Kroeller-Mueller’s dream of establishing her own museum began following an art appreciation course given by art historian H.P. Bremmer that...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Phillips Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Among dozens of spectacular national museums and galleries in Washington, DC there are a number of exquisite private museums not to miss,...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Neue Galerie
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Little did President Ronald Reagan realize what a great gift he was bestowing on the art world and...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Octagon Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Once Washington, in the District of Columbia, was chosen as the permanent capital of the United States, its first...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Dali Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Reese met at a concert in Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1940s and during their courtship visited a...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Gardiner Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto-Canada
Entrepreneur and businessman, George Gardiner began his personal collection of ceramics in 1976 with nothing more in mind than the decoration...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto-Ontario
Unlike most founders of private museums who become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of their immense collections and find themselves in desperate need...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
A precious jewel in the crown of the Guggenheim Foundation is the Peggy Guggenheim Collection housed in her former residence,...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
August Thyssen left his son, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza a vast fortune built on naval construction, oil, steel and armaments. The...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Marjorie Merriweather Post was the only child of Ella Merriweather and Postum Cereal Company founder, C.W.Post. Following the...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
David Lloyd Kreeger was a rare combination of entrepreneur, artist, and lover of the arts. His entrepreneurship as top...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – George Washington’s Mount Vernon
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Sailing along the Potomac River to George Washington’s beloved Georgian plantation, Mount Vernon, on Spirit Cruises’ “Spirit...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Phillips Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Among dozens of spectacular national museums and galleries in Washington, DC there are a number of exquisite private museums, each...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Beyeler Foundation Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Not only did Hildy and Ernst Beyeler love and collect contemporary art, it was their business. They ran their famous Galerie Beyeler in...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Menil Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto-Canada
Little did Dominique Schlumberger, heiress to the Schlumberger Ltd. global oil services company, dream, while growing up in Paris, that she would become the...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Kroeller – Mueller Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Helene Kroeller-Mueller’s dream of establishing her own museum began following an art appreciation course given by art historian H.P. Bremmer that...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Phillips Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Among dozens of spectacular national museums and galleries in Washington, DC there are a number of exquisite private museums not to miss,...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Neue Galerie
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Little did President Ronald Reagan realize what a great gift he was bestowing on the art world and...