The University of Michigan Museum of Art is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with 94,000 sq ft. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall originally housed University of Michigan's Alumni office along with the university's growing art collection. Its first director was Jean Paul Slusser, who served from 1946 to his retirement in 1957.