2025 – 2030
Strategic Plan
Thank you to everyone who took an active role in shaping the future of the Harn Museum of Art by participating in our strategic planning process in fall 2024. Your insights and feedback through surveys, focus groups and our Town Hall meeting were invaluable in charting a course for continued growth and improvement.
We look forward to sharing our strategic plan with you mid-2025.
The Harn’s collections consist of more than 13,000 works of art.
They focus on African, Asian, modern and contemporary art, and photography with significant representation of Ancient American and Oceanic art, and a growing collection of prints and drawings before 1850. The Harn recently received The Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel and Roberta Vickers, an extensive collection of Florida-themed paintings, drawings and watercolors that includes many prominent American artists from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries.
About Us & Upcoming Strategic Plan Focus
Since opening in 1990, the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida has been a cornerstone of the North Central Florida arts and culture ecosystem. In addition to serving the students and faculty of the University, the Harn is the most prominent fine art museum in the greater North Central Florida region, and demonstrates its commitment to being a cultural resource through its free admission and educational activities. The museum is known for its high quality and relevant exhibitions, many of which have toured across the United States.
Mission and Vision
The University of Florida’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art’s mission is to inspire, educate and enrich people’s lives through art. The Harn uses the power of the visual arts to open conversations about our shared cultural history and pressing contemporary issues through exhibitions, collections, scholarship and programming of the highest caliber. The Harn strives to develop an academic community of creative, divergent thinkers in collaboration with the University of Florida, and fosters joy and community by welcoming students, UF faculty and staff and local residents to engage with art.
Five-Year Vision For Success
The Harn will be recognized as an essential part of the education and development of every University of Florida student by leveraging the unique power of art to cultivate lifelong learners, professionals, citizens and cultural participants. The Harn will be a visible cultural asset for the wider North Central Florida community, where all feel welcome to share in its collections, exhibitions, programs grounds and amenities alongside UF students.
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