High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Before the Snite opened in 1980, Notre Dame did not have an art museum, although various public spaces at the University offered galleries. As early as 1924, the Wightman Memorial Art Gallery at University Library was used for art exhibitions. In 1952, O'Shaughnessy Hall, home of the College of Arts and Letters, was equipped with galleries. During the 1950s, Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic was in residence at the University, working in the eponymous Mestrovic Studio. In 1975, the Fred B. Snite family donated funds to construct the Snite Museum of Art. The museum opened in 1980, incorporating both Mestrovic's sculpture studio and the O'Shaughnessy art gallery, the latter used for the presentation of traveling and temporary exhibitions.

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