Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
The OMFA, Kentucky’s second largest art museum, is an educational institution whose mission is to connect people with their culture and the culture of others through collection, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of the visual arts.
The Owensboro Museum of Fine Art presents traveling exhibitions from major museums, galleries and private collections and rotating exhibitions from the permanent collection. The facility includes three wings, two of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Sites: the 1909 Carnegie Library and the John Hampden Smith House, a pre-Civil War era mansion which serves as a decorative arts wing. The permanent collection features American, European and Asian fine and decorative arts dating from the 15th century to the present; a stained glass gallery of late 19th century German stained glass windows; a collection of contemporary studio art glass; a major collection of American Folk Art; and a collection of works by artists and craftsmen with Kentucky connections from the early 1800′s to the present.