It houses a collection of approximately 6,000 objects, has five gallery spaces, and provides training for undergraduate students in museum studies.
The Wright Museum of Art was founded with the donation of Helen Brace Emerson's personal collection in 1892.
In 1894 she brought a collection of ancient Greek sculpture that had been displayed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The initial funds of $139,000 constructed at building modeled after the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.
[3] The museum was named for Theodore Lyman Wright, an 1880 graduate and later professor of Greek and the fine arts.