Crystal Bridges, is a art museum created by Alice Walton Wal-Mart heiress, it scheduled to be open 2010.

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The museum complex will encompass approximately 100,000 square feet of gallery, library, meeting, and office space; a 250-seat indoor auditorium; areas for outdoor concerts and public events; gallery rooms suitable for large receptions, as well as sculpture gardens and walking trails.

Architect Moshe Safdie design the museum and he glass and light wood and he put two ponds at the center of the compound which are spanned by bridges.

The museum will house a permanent collection of signature works from American artists along with galleries dedicated to regional art and artists including Native American art. Some announced works of the permanent collection include: Hudson River School masterwork Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Durand, which is currently on loan to The San Diego Museum of Fine Arts; Charles Willson Peale’s 18th century painting of George Washington, which is currently on loan to the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait), which is currently on loan at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand by Thomas Eakins, currently on loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Spring, by Winslow Homer; Martin Johnson Heade’s Cattleya Orchid, Two Hummingbirds and a Beetle; and Marsden Hartley’s Hall of the Mountain King.

Crystal Bridge Musuem expect 250,000 visitors a year.