page_title: Mint Museum
section_title: Collection highlights
hierarchical_section_title: Mint Museum / Mint Museum Randolph / Collection highlights
context_page_description: The Mint Museum is a cultural institution in Charlotte, North Carolina, that comprises Mint Museum Randolph and Mint Museum Uptown. Together these two locations have hundreds of collections showcasing art and design from around the globe.
  In 2018, The Mint Museum announced Todd A. Herman, PhD, former Executive Director at The Arkansas Arts Center, as the new President and CEO. Bruce LaRowe, former Executive Director of Children's Theatre of Charlotte, was the Interim CEO in June 21, 2017. He assumed the role after the end of Dr. Kathleen V. Jameson's presidency in 2017.
context_section_description: The Mint Museum is the largest visual arts institution in Charlotte and holds the largest public collection of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden's work.
  The American Art collection comprises approximately 900 works created between the late 1700s and circa  1945. It includes portraiture of the Federal era, 19th century landscapes, and paintings from the group known as "The Eight" (Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and Arthur Bowen Davies).  Additional highlights in this area include works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford.
  The Art of the Ancient Americas collection includes roughly 2,000 objects from more than 40 cultures, spanning more than 4,500 years.  The collection includes body adornments, tools, ceramic vessels, sculpture, textiles, and metal ornaments.
  There are about 2,230 objects in the Mint's collection of Contemporary Art.  These include the Bearden collection and other works on paper, contemporary sculpture, and photography from circa 1945 to the present.
  The Mint's Decorative Arts collection, considered one of the finest in the country, centers on its holdings in ceramics.  Containing more than 12,000 objects from 2000 B.C. to 1950 A.D., the collection includes a wide variety of ancient Chinese ceramics, 18th century European and English wares, American art pottery, and North Carolina pottery.  The Mint has the largest and most comprehensive collection of North Carolina pottery in the nation. Its collection of North Carolina pottery comprises some 2,200 objects, dating from the 1700s.
  The museum's Delhom collection, given to the Mint in 1966, contains 2,000 pieces of historic pottery and porcelain, as well as pre-Columbian pieces that are more than 4,500 years old.
  Almost 10,000 items of men's, women's, and children's fashions from the early 18th century to present-day haute couture are included in the museum's collection of Historic Costume and Fashionable Dress, which approaches fashion as an art form.
caption: Rose Harvest by Harry Siddons Mowbray, 1887
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