The mission of the Rubell Museum/Contemporary Arts Foundation is to support diverse artists at an early & critical stage of their development by acquiring, exhibiting, and sharing their artwork. The museum brings art to an underserved part of Miami and prompts cultural engagement and debate, an essential freedom of a democratic society, by sharing with the world the physical and intellectual properties of art. Open since 1994, the Rubell Museum believes that great artworks are an intrinsically liberating and empowering force and that the artifacts of our time are the legacy of society as a whole.