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Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Also known as: Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art
The only museum in the United States dedicated to Tibetan art, founded 1945 by Jacqueline Klauber (under the gender-ambiguous pseudonym Jacques Marchais). On the slope of Lighthouse Hill in a stone-built compound modeled on a Tibetan monastery; collection of 1,000+ objects spanning roughly 600 years. Quietly one of the most-distinctive cultural institutions in New York City.
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The borough’s cultural-institutional layer is distinctive in part because of its outliers. The Jacques Marchais Museum is the rare case of a single private collector building, in 1945, the only museum in the country dedicated to a specific tradition — and it has persisted under that [[mission-district-sf|mission]] for eighty years. Listed as knowledge-care because that institutional persistence is the substance.
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