Question: When was the first major collection donated to the museum?
About the article "Metropolitan Museum of Art", section "Photographs".

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In 1954, Gronsky instituted a shell museum upstairs.
The museum displayed over 2.5 million shells.
Eventually, the shell fish collection was donated to Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. 
The museum first opened in December 1980 when the Lancaster’s donated their personal collection of 5000 toys and trains, lovingly collected for more than forty years.
The museum was born in the basement of the Portsmouth library.
In 1984 the size of the museum doubled and moved to 1846 Courthouse on the corner of High and Court Streets.
At the museums 18th birthday it moved to the 221 location on high street where it is today. 
The museum was established in 1881 as part of Washington University in St. Louis, under the name of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts.
Halsey C. Ives served as the museums first director, and during his tenure, the collection focused on contemporary American artists, notably William Merritt Chase.
In 1905, St. Louis banker Charles Parsons donated his private collection to the museum; this donation included pieces by Frederic Edwin Church, and established the museum as a major holder of contemporary American art.
In 1906, the museum was relocated to the Palace of Fine Arts in Forest Park, where it was housed until 1909.
In that year, the City Museum of Art was formed, and began to acquire works separately from the private university collection.
The university collection would remain "on loan" to the public museum until 1960. 
Unfortunately most of Wu’s early work was destroyed in order to avoid some of the persecution during the Cultural Revolution.
It is difficult to track down works from his younger days.
Wu had an exhibit in 1942 when he was in school and it was hosted by the Sha Ping Youth’s Palace.
Wu Guanzhong has had solo exhibitions in major art galleries and museums around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Taipei, Korea, England and the USA.
His paintings were exhibited at the British Museum in 1992; Wu was the first living Chinese artist to have an exhibition there.
One of his paintings, "Seascape at Beidaihe" (1977), was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an exhibition of paintings from the collection of art dealer Robert H. Ellsworth His work may also be seen in the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
In 2008, Wu donated 113 works to the Singapore Art Museum (SAM).
This donation is the largest Wu Guanzhong donation to a public museum.
In 2010, Wu donated works to the Hong Kong Art Museum. 
The Frost Art Museum’s Permanent Collection includes nearly 6,000 objects from several distinctive collections: the General Collection, the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Collection and the Betty Laird Perry Emerging Artist Collection.
The General Collection holds a strong representation of American printmaking from the 1960s and '70s, photography, Pre-Columbian objects dating from 200-500 AD, and a growing number of works by contemporary Caribbean and Latin American artists.
The Museum continues to expand the collection through private donations, purchases and acquisitions.
The Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Collection, was donated to the Frost Art Museum in order to ensure its intact survival in 1989, when the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center of Coral Gables closed.
This collection of more than 2,300 objects includes sculptures, photographs, and paintings by major 20th century figures, an extensive collection of American prints from the 1960s; major sculptural works; important photographs; rare Japanese Netsukes and ancient bronzes from Asian and African cultures.
In support of the University’s studio arts program, the Betty Laird Perry Emerging Artist Collection comprises artworks obtained through purchase awards granted to selected BFA and MFA students graduating from the program since 1980.
Numerous award recipients have continued to garner national and international recognition as mature artists.