Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum

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The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art, known as The AGB, is an academic and community museum at Florida Southern College in downtown Lakeland, Florida. It was founded in 1966 by Lakeland community residents, is a Smithsonian Affiliate and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Its permanent collection holds more than 3,400 works, including pieces by Rembrandt, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, and it presents year-round exhibitions along with nine annual K-12 student art shows. The museum offers art education for all ages, including school tours, family and adult classes, art history seminars, lectures, a gallery concert series and the Mayfaire by-the-Lake art festival. Admission is always free, supported by members, sustaining partners and donations at the door.