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Colleen Schafroth, Executive Director



Maryhill Museum of Art Offers Complimentary Admission to Residents
of
Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Pacific, Skamania, and Wahkiakum
Counties During Weekend of September 25 & 26

 
(GOLDENDALE, Wash., September 13, 2010) – Maryhill Museum of Art invites residents of Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Pacific, Skamania, and Wahkiakum counties to visit FREE during the weekend of September 25 & 26. Residents of those counties need only present their driver's license to receive complimentary admission.
 
While this is the 18th year Maryhill has extended this offer to its neighbors, it is especially timely now as area residents continue to seek free and low-cost activities, says Maryhill’s executive director, Colleen Schafroth.

"We want to give Northwest residents an opportunity to experience Maryhill and the new exhibits on view each season," she says.  "Visitors will also  have a chance to see our new exhibition Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel, which features
the work of 40 leading artists who are part of the thriving Pacfic Northwest comic art community."
 
Maryhill’s Free Counties Program takes place annually between April and October; each month residents of selected counties in Oregon and Washington states are offered a weekend of free admission. By the end of the season, all residents of Oregon and Washington will have been offered an opportunity to visit Maryhill Museum of Art at no cost.

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ABOUT MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART:
Opened to the public May 13, 1940, Maryhill Museum of Art celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2010. Housed in a glorious Beaux Arts mansion on 5,300 acres high above the Columbia River, Maryhill Museum of Art is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most enchanting cultural destinations. The museum was founded by Northwest entrepreneur and visionary Sam Hill, who purchased the property and began building the house with dreams of establishing a Quaker farming community. When that goal proved untenable, Hill was encouraged by friends Loie Fuller, Queen Marie of Romania, and Alma de Bretteville Spreckles to establish a museum.

Today Maryhill Museum of Art boasts a world-class permanent collection, rotating exhibitions of the highest caliber, and dynamic educational programs that provide opportunities for further exploration by visitors of all ages. On view are more than 80 works by Auguste Rodin, European and American paintings, objects d'art from the palaces of the Queen of Romania, Orthodox icons, unique chess sets, and the renowned Théâtre de la Mode, featuring small-scale mannequins attired in designer fashions of post-World War II France. Baskets of the indigenous people of North America were a collecting interest of Hill; today the museum’s Native American collection represents nearly every tradition and style in North America, with works of art from prehistoric through contemporary.  

Maryhill’s Outdoor Sculpture Garden features work by Tom Herrera, Mel Katz, Heath Krieger, Alisa Looney, Jill Torberson, Julian Voss-Andreae, Jeff Weitzel and Leon White. The Maryhill Overlook is a site-specific sculpture by noted Portland architect Brad Cloepfil; nearby are Lewis and Clark interpretive panels. Four miles east of Maryhill is a life-sized replica of Stonehenge, Stonehenge Memorial, which Sam Hill built to memorialize local men who perished in World War I. Nearby, the Klickitat County War Memorial honors those who have died in the service of their country since World War I.

The museum was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In 2001 the museum was listed as an official site of the National Historic Lewis and Clark Trail and in 2002 was accredited by the American Association of Museums.

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Maryhill Museum of Art is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 15 to November 15. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and $2 for children age 6-16. Admission to the Stonehenge Memorial is free; it is open from 7:00 a.m. to dusk daily.

Sandwiches, salads, espresso drinks, cold beverages, and freshly baked desserts and pastries are available at Café Maryhill; the Museum Store features art and history books, jewelry, Native American crafts and other mementos. 

Maryhill is located off Highway 97, 12 miles south of Goldendale, Washington. Drive times to the museum are 2 hours from Portland/Vancouver, 3.5 hours from Bend, 4 hours from Seattle, and 1.5 hours from Yakima. For further information, visit www.maryhillmuseum.org.
Maryhill Museum of Art | 35 Maryhill Museum Drive | Goldendale, WA 98620 | 509-773-3733
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