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New RMA Facility

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Envisioning the Future

In a community offering many cultural experiences, the Rollins Museum of Art remains unique in the breadth of the collection, the focus on education, and providing free access to all. In order to serve the wider community better, we are planning for a new RMA building, located in downtown Winter Park across from The Alfond Inn. The new RMA facility (which received final conditional approval from the City of Winter Park in April 2023) is designed by Frederick Fisher & Partners and will serve as a cultural hub and a full-fledged community resource for our residents and a destination for art lovers from near and far. It will comprise approximately 31,000 square feet of exhibition and educational programming space. The museum is part of a larger Rollins College project: the Innovation Triangle, which also comprises a new Institute for Management and Executive Leadership, and the current expansion of The Alfond Inn.

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The relocated and expanded Rollins Museum of Art (RMA) will significantly enhance the region’s cultural landscape through larger gallery spaces designed to accommodate major traveling exhibitions and a more extensive display of Rollins’ distinguished permanent collection.

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    A Catalyst For Inspiration and Innovation

    The new 32,000-square-foot facility is key to realizing RMA’s vision to become a premier teaching and destination museum vital to the cultural fabric not only of the Rollins campus but also of the Winter Park and Central Florida communities.

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    Expanded Gallery and Exhibition Space

    The new facility will more than double RMA’s gallery space, allowing the museum to present a wider range of exhibitions in both type and scale as well as display more of its exceptional collection, which boasts over 6,000 works.

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    A Teaching Museum For All

    With dedicated spaces for learning in its education wing, the new building will also allow RMA to extend its teaching mission into the community, expanding its educational programs for diverse audiences and providing intergenerational learning experiences.

Strategic Objectives

The new museum facility will allow not only increased programming serving a wider constituency, but also new and enhanced experiences. Our vision for greater and differentiated impact in the community is embedded in our teaching mission and the way we can deploy it once we are off campus. The new facility and location will help accomplish three main strategic objectives:

  • Welcoming a significantly broader audience with the goal to transform casual looking into sustained engagement and life-long learning.
  • Sharing art engagement strategies specific to college art museums with the community at large.
  • Building new models of creativity, innovation, and leadership training through the arts in partnership with the Crummer Graduate School of Business by leveraging our colocation.
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We Need You!

Having been awarded a $10-million Tourist Development Tax grant from Orange County, the remainder of the funding to construct the new RMA facility is philanthropy-driven. To directly support the new facility, please designate your gift as Innovation Triangle: Museum of Art Facility. For more details, including naming opportunities, contact Myrna Bizer, Associate Vice President for Advancement, at 407-646-2124 or mbizer@rollins.edu.

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