Fralin Museum of Art

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

Established	1935 (as the University of Virginia Art Museum)
Location	155 Rugby Road, Thomas H. Bayly Building, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904 United States
Coordinates	38°02′19″N 78°30′10″W / 38.038526°N 78.502786°W / 38.038526; -78.502786
Type	Art museum
Director	Karen E. Milbourne[1]
Website	uvafralinartmuseum.virginia.edu

The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. Before 2012, it was known as the University of Virginia Art Museum. It occupies the historic Thomas H. Bayly Building on Rugby Road in Charlottesville, Virginia, a short distance from the Rotunda. The museum's permanent collection consists of nearly 14,000 works; African art, American Indian art, and European and American painting, photography, and works on paper are particularly well represented.^[2] The Fralin serves as a teaching museum for academic departments in the university, and serves the community at large with several outreach programs. Admission is free of charge and open to the public.

In the spring of 2012, Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin announced a bequest of their collection of American art to the museum. In honor of their gift and Heywood Fralin's service to the university and to the arts in Virginia, the Board of Visitors voted to name the museum the Fralin Museum of Art.^[3]