USA Today has announced that the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, has topped the 10Best Readers’ Choice award program in the museum category. The Booth beat out some of the most prestigious museums in the country, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A gallery inside the Booth Western Art Museum, which was recently ranked first in museums for USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice award program.
“Wow! We were honored just to be nominated with so many other outstanding museums across the country. I am blown away by the loyalty of our patrons,” says executive director Seth Hopkins. “Quite honestly I am shocked! For us to beat out so many well-known museums is quite amazing. I think it shows how strongly people like our museum and that they were engaged in voting every day as well as encouraging your friends and family to do so as well. It is quite flattering. Nationally we are probably the least-known museum on the entire list, so it’s a win that is kind of like slaying 19 Goliaths at the same time.”
The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
Seth Hopkins, executive director at the Booth Western Art Museum.The Booth Western Art Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is a 120,000-square-foot museum dedicated to art of the West. Highlights within the vast museum include a Presidential Gallery, Civil War art gallery and Sagebrush Ranch, an interactive children’s gallery. Open since August 2003, Booth Museum is the only museum of its kind in the Southeast.
For information about the Booth and its exhibitions and programming visit
www.boothmuseum.org.
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