Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Collection, 1968-1988
Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 17.00 boxes
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
This collection contains documents including but not limited to exhibit brochures, video gallery exhibitions, select artifacts from sunken ships, photographs, sculptures, and prints. This includes the Quicksilver Galleons believed to have sunk near the Dominican Republic in the early 18th century. Additionally, these archives are not limited to Latin America, but do contain select workings from the Far East, such as Japanese ceramic art.
- Biographical / historical:
When the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center (MMAC) closed in 1989, the Art Museum at Florida International University acquired the collection of over 2,300 objects, such as sculptures, photographs, paintings, and other significant cultural artifacts from around the world spanning from the 18th to the 20th century. Such works came from renowned artists William Merritt Chase, Eadweard Muybridge, Rufino Tamayo, Duane Hanson, and Agustin Fernandez. MMAC's formation began in the early 1960s when a group of art enthusiasts brought renowned artists such as Robert Motherwell, James Brooks and Josef Albers to Miami for seminars and workshops. The Lowe Gallery at the University of Miami agreed to provide space for these art activities. Within a year, the group founded the Arts Council, Inc. and moved to a larger space in Kendall. Throughout the 1960's the program continued to grow and began exhibiting and collecting works of art and became a not-for profit organization changing its name to Miami Art Center (MAC). In 1973, MAC merged with the Miami Museum of Modern Art to form the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center. In 1975, MMAC moved from Kendall to the historic Biltmore Country Club in Coral Gables and continued to present premier exhibitions of a variety of collections including local, national, and international collections.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
Rights: In copyright. Standardized rights statement: https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
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