Decades in the Making: New University of Montana Art Museum Opens to the Public

For University of Montana alumna and longtime campus benefactor Suzanne Crocker, seeing the new Montana Museum of Art and Culture for the first time Wednesday was a vision many years in the making.

A Kalispell native, Crocker and late husband Bruce began providing significant gifts to support the museum in 2014. While waiting to tour the new facility with other MMAC building donors, she took in the art-filled lobby.

“I’m just so glad to finally see the collection out of storage so the public can see it and students can use it,” said Crocker, who traveled from her home in California for the opening. “There is so much of the collection that I actually have never seen.”