The Bass Museum of Art is an art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach, Florida

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 in the United States

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 located at 2100 Collins Avenue. The museum specializes in art from around the world from the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 to modern art

Modern art

Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...

. The Bass Museum was founded in 1963 by the City of Miami Beach from a private donation by art collectors John and Johanna Bass, and occupies the 1930s Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center.

The Museum creates and presents traveling exhibitions from national and international collections in order to stimulate tourism

Tourism

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 and provide an important cultural destination for Miami Beach.