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  Location within Central Jacksonville  Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens (Florida)  Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens (the United States) | |
Former name | The Cummer Gallery |
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| Established | November 11, 1961 |
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Coordinates | 30°18′54″N 81°40′37″W / 30.314945°N 81.676900°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | American Alliance of Museums |
| Collection size | 6000 |
| Visitors | 130,000 annually[1] |
| Founder | Ninah Cummer |
| Director | Andrea Barnwell Brownlee[2] |
| Curator | Andrea Barnwell Brownlee |
| Public transit access | Bus: R5, WS12 |
| Nearest parking | Across the street (no charge) |
| Website | www.cummermuseum.org |
Cummer Gardens | |
| NRHP reference No. | 09000345[3] |
| Added to NRHP | January 25, 2010[3] |
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a museum located in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1961 after the death of Ninah Cummer, who bequeathed her gardens and personal art collection to the new museum. The Cummer Museum has since expanded to include the property owned by Ninah's brother-in-law, but it still includes her original garden designs and a portion of her home with its historic furnishing. The museum and gardens attract 130,000 visitors annually.
The permanent collection of the museum includes over 5,000 works of art dating from 2100 BCE to the twenty-first century. The museum's collection is especially strong in European and American paintings and also includes substantial holdings of Meissen porcelain. The museum also has an award-winning education center, Art Connections, which possesses a number of interactive educational installations and serves underprivileged and special education students with its programs.
There are three flower gardens on the museum grounds, the oldest dating back to 1903. These gardens have preserved their original layout for over a century and were designed by landscape designers such as the Olmsted Brothers, Thomas Meehan & Sons, and Ellen Biddle Shipman. The Cummer Gardens are on the National Register of Historic Places.
- ^ "Venues: Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens". Smithsonian. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
- ^ "Updates | Cummer Museum".
- ^ a b Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/25/10 through 1/29/10, National Park Service (February 5, 2010).