Mobile Museum of Art

The museum was founded in 1963 by the Association of Mobile Art. The building is owned by Langan City Park. In 2002, reconstruction work worth $ 15 million was carried out. The size was tripled to 95,000 sq. Ft. (8,826 sq. M). The museum is part of the North American Mutual Museums Program ^[2] .

The museum houses collections on a permanent and temporary basis. Permanent collections include a gallery of African masks, a gallery of Asian art by Mary and Charles Rodning, a gallery of American art by Katrina K. Cochrane, a gallery of European art by Meisel, a collection of Riddick's glass and the gallery "Children in Art" by Friedman. The African collection presents masks, sculptures and other things for the ceremony from different countries of Africa . The Asian collection is represented by a selection of works, ranging from the most ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century . The American gallery presents sculptures, paintings, mainly dating from 1776 . The European gallery contains paintings, prints and sculptures created in Europe , as well as fakes of decorative and applied art. The glass collection is represented by ancient Roman glass products and modern glass decorations. The collection "Children in Art" presents portraits of children and youth of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ^[3] .

Many of the acquisitions since the museum began are made possible by the proceeds from the Annual Open Arts and Crafts Fair, sponsored by the League of Patrons of the Arts and the Mobile Museum of Art. In recent years, the collection has been replenished with the gifts of collectors. In 2001 , when the new building was being built, Haverty and Dr. J. Rhodes Haverty of Atlanta presented the museum with several contemporary art glass items. In total, they donated more than 183 exhibits.