Buffalo AKG Art Museum

See modern and contemporary art, from Monet and Picasso to Pollock and Kahlo, across a three-building campus.

1285 Elmwood Ave · Buffalo, NY

About Buffalo AKG Art Museum

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, opened in 1905 and holds a large collection of modern and contemporary art. You can see works by Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Pollock and Rothko, along with Frida Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Monkey and 33 works by Clyfford Still. The glass Gundlach Building, designed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA, opened in 2023. In the Town Square courtyard, look up at Common Sky, a canopy of glass and mirrors by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann.

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