Art, Design and Architecture Museum
The Art, Design and Architecture Museum is a museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara, located in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
Built in 1959, the museum was originally a gallery for art education at UC Santa Barbara. Today the AD&A contains a fine art collection of over 8,500 works.
Collection
Other than the 8,500 original works the AD&A also possesses over 1,000,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection.The museum's digital collections were enhanced during the COVID-19 crisis so that audiences could continue to enjoy its resources while quarantine was in place.