Columbia Museum of Art, Art museum in downtown Columbia, United States.

The Columbia Museum of Art occupies a building at Main and Hampton Streets, constructed around the steel framework of a former Macy's department store and opened in 1998. Its brick exterior and entrance portico recall the Taylor House, the museum's earlier home. Inside, 22,000 square feet of gallery space include a two-story atrium with a 14-foot Dale Chihuly chandelier and 20 second-floor galleries arranged as a timeline of European and American art.

The museum was established in 1950 and initially located in a private residence before moving to its current downtown site. During the 1950s, it received major Renaissance and Baroque artworks from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, which formed the foundation of its collection.

The museum's name comes from its city, and its collection grew from gifts by local collectors and a 1954 designation as a Kress Foundation regional center, which brought 78 Renaissance and Baroque works over 20 years. A 2003 and 2007 donation by Dr. Robert Y. Turner added Chinese art from about 2000 BCE to 1400 CE, displayed in a gallery that interrupts the European sequence on the second floor.

The museum entrance is on Main Street at the corner of Hampton Street, opening into the two-story Robinson Jr. atrium; the 164-seat auditorium is adjacent to it, and the first-floor galleries lie on the far side. Boyd Plaza, the brick-paved public space in front, holds the Henry Moore, Robert Carroll and Steven Naifeh sculptures. Twenty galleries on the second floor trace European and American art from antiquity onward.

Boyd Plaza, the brick-paved public space in front of the museum, was created by partially demolishing the former Belk department store; its 2017 renovation was funded by the Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Foundation. It holds Henry Moore's Upright Motive No. 8 (c. 1955–1956), Robert Carroll's Apollo Cascade (2007) and Steven Naifeh's Jali XXXVII (2013).