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Open Museum

Preserving, presenting, and celebrating the art of our time. A permanent collection and a museum home in Miami, now in development.

Now placing exhibitions in hospitals, senior centers and community spaces

Open Museum is the first museum dedicated to artists with disabilities working in supportive studios. Born in Miami, Open Museum is building a permanent home here, a place where these artists receive the sustained exhibition, public access, and institutional recognition long reserved for their peers. From that home, its exhibitions also travel into hospitals, care settings, and public institutions.

Our home

A permanent home in Miami

Concept rendering at golden hour: a whitewashed brick warehouse with a sawtooth roof and a royal palm, joined at one end by a pale perforated concrete addition with a tall glass corner, colorful paintings visible inside.Concept
Concept rendering. Site to be announced.

Open Museum is building a permanent home in Miami: about 4,000 square feet of galleries, a working studio and a tropical courtyard. The concept is a converted warehouse in the spirit of Allapattah, whitewashed brick under a sawtooth roof, opened up by a perforated concrete screen and a glass corner. The museum is now in development.

Tour our museum before it's built

Concept rendering of the main gallery: whitewashed brick walls, steel trusses and sawtooth skylights over a concrete floor, bold colorful works on freestanding walls, and a glass wall opening onto a tropical courtyard.ConceptTour our museum before it's builtA two-minute guided walk from the street to the courtyard, or explore room by room and meet the works on the walls.Begin the tour

Prefer to wander? Explore the floor plan.

Our reach

Already in hospitals, care settings and public spaces

While we build our home, Open Museum brings the collection to people where they are, through exhibitions on loan and museum nodes.

Partners
Hospitals, senior centers and other care and community organizations, formalized through a Museum Partner Agreement.
Approach
Formal exhibition loans. Open Universe keeps ownership, so collections stay intact whatever a partner's budget cycle.
Purpose
Bring art to people where they are, and give artists institutional presence.

Become a museum node: the Open Universe Wall

Concept rendering of a hospital lobby: ten framed, brightly patterned works hung in two rows of five beneath large Open Universe wall signage, with patients seated in the lounge.
Concept: an Open Universe Wall in a hospital lobby.

Host a museum node and your space becomes part of the museum: rotating, museum-quality work on your walls, with Open Universe visibility and press.

The artist earns 10% of every payment for as long as the work hangs. The rest runs the gallery, the fairs and the museum. Over time, we aim to direct support back to partner studios through stipends.

Nodes can be anywhere: hospitals, hotels, public lobbies. Offices and private spaces lease through The Living Collection.

Get in touch to bring the collection to your space.

Become a partner

See the collection in the city

First nodes announced soon

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The Vision

Where the museum could go next. These are concept renders, not announced locations.

Concept render of a Miami Modern museum hub: white concrete, a breeze-block screen, terrazzo floor and palms in subtropical light, with three colorful framed works on a white wall and a coral bench.Concept
A Miami hubWorks by Kenya Hanley, James Rosa and Robert Latchman.
Concept render of a double-height New York office lobby with walnut panels and a limestone wall hung with three large colorful framed works.Concept
A New York office lobbyWorks by Cynthia Stickler, Maxx Reith and Bruce Dillon.
Concept render of a grand historic hotel lobby with a chandelier, marble columns and green velvet chairs, with three framed flower paintings under picture lights.Concept
A historic hotel lobbyWorks by Donna Faiella, Maria Radilla and Zach Mabert.
Concept render of a bright airport concourse with three large colorful framed works on a long white wall beside windows onto the airfield.Concept
An airport concourseWorks by Shawn Sanders, Corey Scarboro and Xochilt Escobar.
Concept render of a hospital lobby with ten framed works in two rows beneath Open Universe signage.Concept
A hospital lobby: the Open Universe WallAbout ten works with Open Universe signage and wall text.
Artists, staff and families smiling together inside the gallery, a woman holding a baby at the centre.

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Help build the museum

A permanent home in Miami for contemporary art by artists with disabilities.

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Hospitals, senior centers and community spaces: tell us about your space and the people you serve.

Exhibitions

First exhibition

Tursi World · John Tursi

Coming soon

Partners

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Bring Open Museum to your space.

Prefer a year-round placement? See The Living Collection in public spaces, in the workplace and at home.

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