 The museum that came from Margaret Ann Everist's vision contains of exhibition space, a 131-seat lecture hall, the Atrium Gift Gallery, the Junior League Hands On!Gallery, progressively designed classrooms, a fully equipped darkroom and ceramics studio, and an environmentally controlled vault for the housing and preservation of the Art Center's permanent collection.After almost twelve years of fund-raising, planning and construction, the new Sioux City Art Center welcomed its patrons and public into the building on March 1, 1997.