About Miami Art Museum

Miami Art Museum (MAM) serves one of the most diverse and fast-growing regions of the country, where a confluence of North and Latin American cultures adds vibrancy and texture to the civic landscape. The city's thriving community of artists, designers, and collectors and its avid and growing art-viewing public, are driving Miami's demand for a world-class museum.

Miami-Dade is the only major metropolitan area in the United States that does not have a major art museum serving the full spectrum of its community. Therefore, MAM has begun building a new Museum and resource commensurate to Miami's position as a hemispheric hub and creative capital, one whose impact extends nationally and beyond. MAM embraces its role as a cultural anchor and touchstone in a city that welcomes countless ethnic and age groups, lifestyles and ideas.

MAM's far-ranging vision is expressed in the breadth and depth of its exhibition program, from major solo exhibitions of artists such as Ana Mendieta and Vik Muniz, to "Miami in Transition," in which Miami-based artists responded to the city's development, MAM's broad curatorial mandate accommodates wide-ranging artistic approaches. MAC@MAM, the groundbreaking collaboration with Miami Art Central, presents exhibitions such as "Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine and Other Stories," "Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega: Parres Trilogy" and "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space." Future exhibitions at MAM will include an internationally traveling, mid-career retrospective of the works of Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca.

MAM recently received a number of major gifts from Miami collectors, in honor of the Museum's 10th anniversary in 2007. The Museum has embarked on an initiative to build on its collection of holdings from the twentieth century through the present. Among the artists represented in MAM's growing collection are Carlos Alfonzo, José Bedia, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Guillermo Kuitca, Wilfredo Lam, Sol LeWitt, Doug Aitken, Robert Rauschenberg, and Lorna Simpson.

MAM enriches Miami's cultural climate by fostering visual literacy across all age groups. Further, it nurtures Miami's future artists and museum-goers by providing the most ambitious art-museum education program in Miami-Dade County, with offerings for teachers and students, grades K through 12. During the 2006-2007 school year, more than 6,700 students visited MAM's exhibitions as part of the museum's "MAM & Schools" program. Almost 9,000 participants attended MAM's non-school-based programs, including over 4,000 in the free summertime "MAM in the Neighborhood" outreach program, more than 3,000 at the monthly "Second Saturdays are Free for Families" programs and 1,00 in the off-site "MAM Art Caravan" program.

Founded in 1997, MAM is a young institution.  It is currently housed in a space that was solely conceived as an exhibition hall and therefore lacks both the facilities to maintain a collection and educational resources, and to accommodate Miami-Dade's growing population.  MAM's institutional expansion will proactively address these accelerating needs, by creating a state-of-the-art building for the Museum's rapidly growing collection, and by extending MAM's exemplary educational programs to an even larger and broader cross-section of the public.

Following years of intensive research and planning, the Miami Art Museum has launched the design and construction of its new, 125,000 square-foot home in Museum Park, in downtown Miami. The new building will enable MAM to better serve diverse audiences and will also enhance MAM's role as a gateway between continents and cultures.

The new MAM will be an anchor of the new 29-acre park, which will include public gardens and sculpture installations, and the future home of  the Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium, which will host a branch of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.

Governance and Accreditation
Miami Art Museum (MAM) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit educational institution with a civic Board of Trustees. MAM was accredited by the American Association of Museums and reaccredited in 2001.

Private and Public Support
Miami Art Museum is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts; with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, and the Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Miami.