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The Longview Museum of Fine Arts was begun by the Junior Service League of Longview in 1958, and held its first yearly Invitational Exhibit in 1959. The present location on Tyler Street was renovated in 1997. The inaugural exhibit was held on January 17, 1998. Today the Museum displays its permanent collection in the Wrather Gallery, the main gallery inside the front doors. The Premier I and II Galleries adjoining host traveling exhibits six times per year, with private members' receptions the weekend before opening to the public. The Judge J.T. Smith Sculpture Garden rotates exhibits annually. LMFA has a permanent collection of over 300 paintings, etchings, woodcuts, photographs, works on paper, lithographs, serigraphs, collages and pieces of sculpture that are rotated from the vault on a regular basis.