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Free DIA Admission For Detroit Residents On Sunday

DETROIT (WWJ) - Detroit residents can get free admission to the Detroit Institute of Arts this Sunday.

The DIA wants to thank its patrons for their support of the museum's Inside Out program. DIA spokesperson Larry Baranski said they have taken and replicated paintings from the likes of Van Gogh and Diega Rivera and put them around metro Detroit locations.

"We make full-scale reproductions and frame them with real wood frames. We've been doing this for about a year now. We then install them in pedestrian environments for the most part, throughout Southeastern Michigan," he said.

If you want to check out the Detroit installations, the art is located along the riverfront at Rivard Plaza, GM Plaza and Milliken State Park; at Eastern Market and at the Dequindre Cut.

Baranski said as a token of the museum's thanks, Detroit residents can receive four free general admissions to the DIA on Sunday Oct. 16. Residents will be required to show their driver's license or state ID to receive free admission.

The DIA, located at 5200 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, visit www.dia.org.

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