Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

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The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is located in a 75,000 square-foot modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a 10,000 square foot wing added in 2001. Tha main exhibition area comprises 21,000 square feet; a sculpture terrace on the second floor adds an additional 2800 square feet of space.^[1] The museum, unlike major museums in nearby Miami, Florida and Palm Beach, Florida, emphasizes contemporary (20th century) projects^[2]. Among its 6200 pieces are a significant collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso, a collection of contemporary Cuban art representing the contributions of more than 125 artists, and North America's largest exhibition of work from the Northern European CoBrA avant-garde movement.^[3]

1 Glackens Wing
2 Tutankhamun exhibit
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Glackens Wing

In 2001, the museum exapanded, adding the Glackens wing to house a collection of over 500 works from American realist painter William Glackens. The 2000 square foot exhibit^[4] is the largest collection of his work in existence, and includes both his oldest known (Philadelphia Landscape, 1893) and last completed (White Rose and Other Flowers, 1937) paintings.

[edit] Tutankhamun exhibit

In December 2005, a traveling exhibit of relics from the tomb of Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun opened at the Museum of Art. The museum was one of only four venues for this exhibit, touring the United States for the first time in over 25 years. During its four-month run in Fort Lauderdale, over 700,000 tickets were sold. ^[5]