Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

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NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
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Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale is located in Florida
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
Location within Florida
Established 1958
Location Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Type Art museum
Director Bonnie Clearwater
Website Official website

The NSU Art Museum 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 (7,000 m2) modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) wing added in 2001. The main exhibition area comprises 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2); a sculpture terrace on the second floor adds an additional 2,800 square feet (260 m2) of space.[1] The museum, unlike major museums in nearby Miami, Florida and Palm Beach, Florida, emphasizes contemporary (20th century) projects.[2]

Among its 6,200 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] The museum's collections are strong in the cultures of South Florida and the Caribbean.[4]

The museum is associated with Nova Southeastern University.

Glackens Wing

In 2001, the museum expanded, adding the Glackens wing to house a collection of over 500 works from American realist painter William Glackens. The 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) exhibit[5] 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.

Tutankhamun exhibit

In December 2005, a traveling exhibit of relics from the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh 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.[6]

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