# The new Rubell Museum

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2019-11-10

allapattah, art, art-basel-miami-beach, contemporary-art, miami, miami-beach, new-york-city, rubell-family-collection, rubell-museum, selldorf-architects, wynwood

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This December 4 (2019) -- the day before [Art Basel](https://www.artbasel.com/miami-beach) starts -- the Rubell family will open a new 100,000 square foot museum in Miami's [Allapattah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allapattah) district. (For years people have been calling Allapattah the new Wynwood.)

A former industrial space on a 2.5 acre lot, the building was renovated by New York-based [Selldorf Architects](https://www.selldorf.com/sa-news/rubell-family-collection-new-museum). Just over half of the building has been allocated to exhibition space and about 65% of this will be for permanent/longer-term collections.

The Rubell family started collecting contemporary art in 1965. At the time, they were living in New York City. In 1990 they moved to Miami and in 1993 they opened up the "Rubell Family Collection" in Wynwood, which was [a depressed neighborhood](https://wynwoodmiami.com/learn/our-story/) up until probably the early 2000s.

With over 7,200 works, it is now one of the largest privately owned and publicly accessible contemporary art collections in the world. If you live in Miami or you happen to find yourself there this winter, you may want to check out the new [Rubell Museum](https://rfc.museum/).

_Rendering:_ [_Selldorf Architects_](https://www.selldorf.com/sa-news/rubell-family-collection-new-museum)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/the-new-rubell-museum)*