Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.
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Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. (1939 - ) is a businessman, collector, philanthropist, and founder of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida, and Nervi, Italy.
Wolfson was born in Miami to Mitchell Wolfson Sr., graduated from Princeton University in 1963 with a degree in comparative literature, and received a master's degree in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Wolfson lived in Genoa during the late 1960s and early 1970s while working for the American consulate. He is president of Washington Storage Company Inc., and the investment firm Novecento Corp, and serves as a member of the Chairman’s Circle of the American Friends of the Louvre, New York; the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art; and the International Council of Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Wolfson established the Wolfsonian Museum in 1992 to house his collection, and in 1997 donated it to Florida International University which now operates the museum. Its branch museum in Nervi opened in 2006.
