Frost Art Museum

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The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum or simply known as the Frost Art Museum is a Florida International University museum located on-campus. The art collections are currently held in the Primera Casa Building but will be moved to their new on-campus art museum building, the Frost Art Museum on the south side of campus by the Wertheim Performing Arts Center.

Founded in 1977, The Art Museum at Florida International University (TAM/FIU), recently renamed The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, started as a student gallery. Since then, it has grown to achieve official recognition as a major cultural institution of the State for its unprecedented collection of Latin American and 20th century American art, its innovative exhibitions that draw on or enhance the collection, and its unparalleled service to South Florida's diverse audiences.

In 1999, the museum received accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). From the community, the Frost Art Museum has earned the accolade "Miami's Best Museum" (South Florida's New Times, 1996, 1994, 1993). It has assumed a central role in the FIU community and in the cultural life of South Florida as a whole through its mission to serve the broadest audience possible and to deliver all programs and services free of charge.

Since 1977, the museum has been housed in less than 7,000 interior square feet of an FIU administration building located in the heart of the campus. Through its determination to reach "the broadest audience possible," the Frost Art Museum figuratively burst through its walls to create one of the most prestigious outdoor sculpture programs in the US, with 57 monumental works by the stellar sculptors of contemporary world art.

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The Frost Art Museum will encompass 46,000-square feet at a total construction cost of $17 million. It will be built on a spectacular lakeside site on the "Avenue of the Arts," a mall that will connect the Museum, the Wertheim Performing Arts Center and the Management and Advanced Research Center (MARC) on the University Park campus. The Museum will house FIU's permanent art collection, its program of temporary exhibitions and lectures, art scholarship and conservation. A soaring glass entrance atrium will lead to a cafe and museum shop, destined to become a new hub for campus cultural life. The new museum is expecte to be finished by the Summer of 2007.

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