The Museum holds a collection of more than 8,000 objects, with strengths in American ceramics, Tibetan paintings, Indian bronzes, photography, and comic book art.

Focusing on the museum collection, the main gallery features Everything but the Shelves; over a thousand objects hung salon-style.

Educational programs and artists’ services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and art classes for the community are also available.

In the 1940s, when the Art Club relocated, along with the Erie Public Museum (which had occupied the basement of the Library) to the Watson-Curtze Mansion at 356 West Sixth Street.

The storefront at 423 State was developed to house the Frame Shop, including a small gallery facing the street.