Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Modern art museum in Fort Lauderdale, United States.

The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, now NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, occupies an 83,000-square-foot modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and completed in 1986, with a 10,000-square-foot wing added in 2001. Its main exhibition area covers 21,000 square feet, and a second-floor sculpture terrace adds 2,800 square feet.

The museum opened in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center. In 1986 it moved into an 83,000-square-foot modernist building designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, and in 2001 a 10,000-square-foot wing was added. A partnership with Nova Southeastern University in 2008 brought the NSU name.

The museum holds one of the largest collections of CoBrA art in North America, a movement born in the late 1940s that brought together artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. Walking through the galleries, visitors see bold colors and raw, expressive forms that were made as a direct reaction against formal artistic traditions.

The museum sits in downtown Fort Lauderdale near the New River, and it is easy to reach on foot if you are staying in the city center. The galleries are accessible and laid out clearly, so visitors can move through at their own pace without getting turned around.

The Tutankhamun show opened in December 2005, not 2005 alone, and ran four months; it was the first US tour of these relics in over 25 years. More than 700,000 tickets were sold in Fort Lauderdale, one of only four US venues.