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DIRECTOR AND CEO, VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, RICHMOND
DIRECTOR AND CEO, VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, RICHMOND
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Nyerges is now in his 18th year as director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, one of the nation’s top 10 comprehensive art museums. Free to all visitors, the museum opened in 1936 and has more than 545,000 square feet of galleries, event space and dining. In the works is a 170,000-square-foot, $190 million expansion to be named for longtime donors Jim and Frances McGlothlin of Bristol, although according to the museum, plans are still in the community input phase.
The new wing will include more space for African, Native American, modern European and 21st century art exhibits, as well as additional storage room for the museum’s growing permanent collection. Coming in October are two photography exhibits, and in April 2025, a traveling Impressionism exhibit arrives from the Dallas Museum of Art.
Nyerges, a photographer, called a gift of more than 2,000 books on American and European photography received by the museum in 2022 “a transformative donation.”
Hailing from Rochester, New York, Nyerges graduated from George Washington University in 1982 with a master’s degree in museum studies.
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