[3] The museum is funded by The Two Red Roses Foundation,[4] which in turn was endowed by art collector, businessman and philanthropist Rodolfo (Rudy) Ciccarello.

[5] Designed by Alfonso Architects, the museum is five stories and features a grand atrium, skylights, a spiral staircase, more than 40,000 square feet of gallery space, a children’s gallery, a reference library, a theater, a graphic studio, and a green space.

[10] Ciccarello, who founded a successful pharmaceutical distribution business, says that he first became interested in the Arts and Crafts movement when he saw a cabinetmaker crafting a bookcase copied from one designed by Gustav Stickley, and decided to buy the original.

[citation needed] The collection includes work by Gustav Stickley, Charles Rohlfs, Frank Lloyd Wright, the artists of Byrdcliffe Colony, Greene and Greene, Dirk van Erp, Roycroft, William Grueby, Newcomb Pottery, and Arthur Wesley Dow.

[5] Kent Lydecker, director of the Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida), described the Ciccarello collection as "one of the most important collections of American Arts and Crafts, in all media, in private hands.