Buy A Bus: New art museum at WSU offers new viewing, perspective for locals

Although located in the heart of the WSU campus, the new Jordan Schnitzer D. Museum of Art WSU provides a place to expand minds and encourage creative thinking for all of Whitman County and beyond.

Grand opening of the museum was Friday, April 6. The reception drew a standing-room-only crowd to the Crimson Cube, so nicknamed for its box build wrapped in reflective crimson glass. The largest public fine arts facility east of the Cascades, the building features six galleries free to the public.

“I was a lucky one that I grew up with art all around me,” said Schnitzer, whose $5 million donation h...