Timeline

Explore the museum's history with this interactive.

The Key Players

Meet some of the people most involved with building the new museum from the ground up, including the museum director, the architect, the museum's namesake, an influential donor, the niece of one of America's greatest painters and others.

Background story

Where to start the story of Roanoke’s new art museum? Maybe in a Roanoke bagel shop, where lawyer Heman Marshall ran into Judy Larson, the museum’s executive director at the time.