Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Modern art museum in Fort Lauderdale, United States.
The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, also known as NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, is an art museum in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It occupies a modernist building from the 1980s with several gallery floors and an outdoor sculpture garden.
The museum was founded in 1958 as a small regional art center and moved to its current building in the 1980s. That move gave it the space to grow its collection and open to a wider public.
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.
In 2005, the museum was one of only 4 venues in the entire United States authorized to display artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun. The show drew so many visitors that it became one of the most attended events in the city's history.
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