Mint Museum of Art

The Mint Museum of Art is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a building that once housed the Charlotte Mint. Opening in 1936, it was the first art museum in North Carolina. Today it features permanent and visiting exhibitions with noted collections of American art, pre-Columbian art, American and European ceramics, American decorative arts, historic costumes and accessories, African art, Asian art, historic maps, contemporary art, and photography.