[1] The museum opened on December 7, 1974 in McKnight Art Center, where it is still located today.
[3] It is best known for the large Venetian glass and marble mosaic by Joan Miró found on the facade of the building, titled Personnages Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot (8.5 by 15.8 m) mural on 80 panels.
[6] The sculpture collection includes works by Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Lila Katzen, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Auguste Rodin, Sophia Vari, Elyn Zimmerman, and Francisco Zuniga.
The museum's permanent collection of over 7,000 works includes works by Benny Andrews, Diane Arbus, Barkley Hendricks, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Sol LeWitt, Joan Mitchell, Gordon Parks, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among many others.
[8] The collection also contains large groups of works by a number of artists, including Lee Adler, Minna Wright Citron, Gordon Parks, Marian Stephenson Patmore, and Harry Sternberg.