Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

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The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art (Slovak: Múzeum Andyho Warhola Medzilaborce; Múzeum Moderného Umenia Andyho Warhola) is a biographical museum in Medzilaborce, Slovakia, dedicated to the work and family origin of the American artist Andy Warhol.

The museum was founded on 1 September 1991, as a joint initiative of John Warhola, brother of the late Andy Warhol, Dr. Michal Bycko, Fred Hughes and Vladimír Protivňák, as well as by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, in New York, and the Ministry of Culture of Slovakia. On 9 September 1991, the first 13 original works of Warhol were brought to the museum, accompanied by Jay Shriver, Warhol's assistant and a member of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. A large post office building from the Communist era was adapted to be the biographical museum. On 5 October 1991, the grand opening of the museum took place with the exhibition "Andy Warhol in the Country of His Parents", attended by John Warhol and Ladislav Snopko, the Slovak Minister of Culture. The original name of the museum, The Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art, was changed to the current name in 1996. On 1 April 2002, the Prešov...