Rollins Museum of Art, Art museum in Winter Park, United States.
Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park holds more than 5,000 artworks including paintings from the 14th century, sculptures, and contemporary pieces arranged across six galleries. The collection spans different art movements and styles from multiple centuries.
Rollins College began gathering portraits of college figures and natural history specimens around 1900. General and Mrs. John Carty gave the first old master painting, Lavinia Fontana's The Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion, in 1936. Gifts from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1937 and 1938 formally launched fine art collecting. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum opened in 1978 in a complex funded by George and Harriet Cornell, and in 2021 it was renamed the Rollins Museum of Art.
The museum's name changed in fall 2021 from the Cornell Fine Arts Museum to the Rollins Museum of Art, announced by director Ena Heller on July 28, 2021. The collection began around 1900 with portraits of college figures and natural history specimens; some ethnographic objects came from the Smithsonian after the campus museum burned in the 1920s.
The museum sits on the Rollins College campus in Winter Park, greater Orlando, and is the only teaching museum in the area. Galleries occupy a complex expanded in 2004–5, with six galleries and a print study room; temporary exhibitions rotate alongside the permanent collection. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art is shown in a separate satellite space at The Alfond Inn, a Rollins-owned hotel whose proceeds fund student scholarships.
The Alfond Inn is a separate boutique hotel owned by Rollins College, not a wing of the museum; since 2013 it has shown the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, which by 2015 held more than 230 paintings, photographs, sculptures and mixed-media works. Hotel proceeds fund student scholarships.
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