Montgomery Museum Of Fine Arts

Museum History:

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1930 by a group of local artists and patrons under the name of the “Alabama Society of Fine Arts.” The Museum’s home for the first twenty-nine years was the former LawrenceStreetSchool at the corner of High and Lawrence Streets in downtown Montgomery.

Between 1930 and 1959, under the governance of the Museum Association, (a private board of trustees) the Museum's activities were supported primarily through memberships and private donations.

In 1960, the Museum became a department of the City of Montgomery and, in 1983, MontgomeryCounty joined the City to support the Museum as an equal partner, sharing the institution’s operating costs. Since 1930, the budget of the Museum has grown from one thousand dollars per annum to more than three million dollars. The staff has increased from a small volunteer force to over fifty full and part-time employees.