The Baker Museum, Art museum in Naples, Florida
The Baker Museum is an art museum in Naples, Florida, spread across three floors displaying modern and contemporary works. The building also houses a library with art books and a shop offering art-related merchandise.
Designed by Florida architect Eugene Aubry, the museum opened in 2000 as the Naples Museum of Art and was later renamed for philanthropists Patty and Jay Baker. It closed from September 2017 to December 2019 after water damage from Hurricane Irma. A Weiss/Manfredi expansion, completed in 2020, added 18,000 square feet.
The museum's holdings grew through named donations: the Ahmet Ertegun Collection of about 300 Modernist works arrived in 1999, the Harry Pollak Collection of Mexican art from 1900 to 1980 in 2002, and the Olga Hirshhorn Collection in 2013 and 2016. The Sisters Reading Room holds the Saldukas Family Foundation library collection.
The museum stands at 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard, on the Artis–Naples campus shared with the Naples Philharmonic. It closed from September 2017 to December 2019 after Hurricane Irma water damage, and a Weiss/Manfredi expansion added 18,000 square feet in 2020. Admission is free during Art After Hours, held the last Wednesday of each month from 6pm to 9pm.
The museum's Ahmet Ertegun Collection, acquired in 1999, holds about 300 Modernist works from the 1910s to the 1960s, including pieces by Marsden Hartley, Thomas Hart Benton and Stuart Davis. The Harry Pollak Collection, acquired in 2002, brought Mexican art from 1900 to 1980 by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
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