A big 45-ft. aluminum trailer truck rumbled into Fredericksburg, Va. one day this week and parked near an elementary school. Outside it looked like any ordinary truck, but the inside was unusual: it contained a small, well-stocked art gallery. The truck was Virginia's new "artmobile," the U.S.'s first art gallery on wheels. Its purpose: to bring great art to people who ordinarily never set foot inside a museum.
Built for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the truck cost $40,000. has a display area of 32 ft. by 7 ft., airconditioning,...
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