{{Short description|Art museum in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox museum | name = Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti (The Pizzuti) | logo = File:CMA logo.png | image = Pizzuti Collection.jpg | image_upright = 1.25 | map_type = | former_name = | established = 2013 | location = 632 N. Park Street, Columbus, Ohio | coordinates = {{Coord|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | mapframe-zoom = 13 | type = Contemporary art | executive_director = Brooke A. Minto | public_transit = {{bus icon}} {{rint|COTA}} {{COTA link|1|2|5|Night Owl}} | website = {{URL|www.columbusmuseum.org/pizzuti-collection}} | embedded = }} '''Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti''' is a museum for contemporary art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It has been part of the Columbus Museum of Art since September 2018. The three-story gallery is located in the Short North and Victorian Village neighborhoods, on the eastern edge of Goodale Park. Its exhibits rotate, featuring artists from around the world.
The museum was originally owned by the Pizzuti family, which made its wealth from the real estate firm the Pizzuti Companies. The family began collecting art in 1977, after a trip to Paris. The Pizzuti Collection opened in 2013, and had shown 16 temporary exhibits before its 2018 donation to the Columbus Museum of Art.
==Attributes== The museum primarily exhibits the Pizzuti family's collection, estimated in 2018 at about 2,400 works of contemporary art.<ref name="sale"/> The three-story Pizzuti Collection building in the Short North was built in the 1920s and has {{convert|18000|sqft}}.<ref name="sale"/><ref name="Edwards"/> The museum displays temporary rotating exhibits of international artists.<ref name="Edwards"/> By the time of its donation in 2018, the museum had hosted 16 exhibitions with artists from 40 countries. No more than 10 percent of the collection has been displayed at any time.<ref name="alive"/>
The museum building contributes to the Near Northside Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite book|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form|series=File Unit: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Ohio, 1964 - 2013|publisher=National Park Service|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988521|date=|accessdate=January 8, 2021}}</ref>
==History== The museum building was formerly the headquarters to the Order of United Commercial Travelers of America, from 1924 to 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/a-look-back/2013/10/supreme-headquarters.html#selection-2659.128-2659.144|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131003221258/http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/a-look-back/2013/10/supreme-headquarters.html#selection-2659.128-2659.144|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-10-03|title=United Commercial Travelers, calling Columbus home since 1888 | the C…}}</ref>
The museum was originally owned and operated by the Pizzuti family.<ref name="sale"/> Ron and Ann Pizzuti owed much of their wealth to their Pizzuti Companies, a real estate development company. The pair have been art collectors since about 1977.<ref name="Edwards"/> Ron Pizzuti began his interest in art during a visit to Paris, admiring a work by Frank Stella.<ref name="alive">{{cite web|author=Jim Fischer |url=https://www.columbusalive.com/entertainment/20180905/arts-feature-pizzuti-collection-five-years-in |title=Arts feature: The Pizzuti Collection five years in - Entertainment - Columbus Alive - Columbus, OH |publisher=Columbus Alive |date=2018-09-05 |access-date=2020-04-07}}</ref> His first purchase, for $900, was ''Circus People'' by Karel Appel, from the Pace Gallery's former Columbus location.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eva Glimcher's artistic legacy|work=Columbus Monthly|url=https://www.columbusmonthly.com/article/20151223/LIFESTYLE/312239543|date=December 23, 2015|access-date=April 7, 2020}}</ref>
Around 2013, the Pizzutis renovated the Pizzuti Collection's building into the public gallery.<ref name="Edwards">{{cite web|last=Edwards |first=Karen |url=https://www.artandobject.com/articles/pizzuti-art-collection-showcases-visions-india |title=The Pizzuti Art Collection Showcases Visions of India | Art & Object |publisher=Artandobject.com |date=2017-10-07 |access-date=2020-04-07}}</ref> The museum opened to the public in 2013.<ref name="sale"/>
In September 2018, the museum and part of its collection was donated to the Columbus Museum of Art.<ref name="sale">{{cite news|last=Goldsmith|first=Suzanne|title=Pizzuti Collection to become part of Columbus Museum of Art|newspaper=The Columbus Dispatch|url=https://www.dispatch.com/news/20180906/pizzuti-collection-to-become-part-of-columbus-museum-of-art|date=September 6, 2018|access-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref> The Pizzuti, along with the main branch of the museum, temporarily closed beginning in March 2020 due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.<ref>{{cite news|title=Columbus libraries, art museum to close amid coronavirus pandemic|work=Columbus Business First|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/03/13/columbus-libraries-art-museum-to-close-amid.html|date=March 13, 2020|access-date=April 7, 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|https://www.columbusmuseum.org/pizzuti-collection/}}
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