Photos: Museum Of The American Arts And Crafts Movement

The long-awaited Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement in St. Petersburg opened to the public Tuesday. The art expands beyond what’s inside to the unique architecture.

By Martha Asencio-Rhine Times staff
Published Sept. 8, 2021

Visitors arrive at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg

Looking down a marble-lined staircase, toward the cafe, from the second floor at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, privately owned by philanthropist and collector Rudy Ciccarello and designed in partnership with Alfonso Architects, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Looking up through the spiral staircase at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, privately owned by philanthropist and collector Rudy Ciccarello and designed in partnership with Alfonso Architects, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Museum visitors visit the arts cafe at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Looking up at the ceiling inside the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, privately owned by philanthropist and collector Rudy Ciccarello and designed in partnership with Alfonso Architects, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Three vases by Adelaide Alsop Robineau the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Assorted pieces from Newcomb Pottery established at Tulane University in New Orleans, where women received opportunity to be involved in the arts, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

A museum visitor strolls underneath the Ships mural from 1914, made by the Rockwood Pottery Company, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

An oak sideboard from 1902, Craftsman Workshops in New York, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Fish Panel by Frederick Hurten Rhead at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

The gift shop at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Looking through the Poppy windows from the Winton House by designer George Washington Maher, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

The Culbertson House entry hall designed by Charles and Henry Greene, assembled in its entirety at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Detail of a staircase from the Chicago Stock Exchange by Dankmar Adler at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Pieces from the special exhibition, The Collector’s Gallery, composed of special pieces beloved by museum founder Rudy Ciccarello, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Windows from the Emma Demmer house by George Mann Dienecken, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Looking up the spiral staircase at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, privately owned by philanthropist and collector Rudy Ciccarello and designed in partnership with Alfonso Architects, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Skylight from the Arthur Heurtley House by famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Pieces from the special exhibition, The Collector’s Gallery, composed of special pieces beloved by museum founder Rudy Ciccarello, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Assorted pieces by furniture designer Charles Rohlfs, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Assorted pieces from the lighting gallery at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Closeup of Daughters of the House by Helen Hyde from 1904, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Looking toward the lobby from the second floor at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Andirons in the form of seahorses, possibly by William Denslow, part of the special exhibition, Love, Labor and Art, The Roycroft Enterprise at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Storage Tanks, I.G. Farben Chemical Company, Leuna, Germany, 1930, by Margaret Bourke-White, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Assorted pieces from the lighting gallery at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

A wood piano at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Assorted lamps and lanterns in the lighting gallery at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

A photography exhibition at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

The view north from the windows on the third floor at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Bear’s Belly-Arikara by Edward Sheriff Curtis from 1909 exhibited at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

A six-light electric lamp by designer Victor Toothaker at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

A 65-piece tile mural of a peacock by Gladding, McBean and Company, Los Angeles, California, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

The Iris Bathroom, formally in the Ohio home of Oliver and Ina Clay, assembled at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

People are pictured on different floors at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Looking down at at the the Aloha Landing, built in 1912, as a boathouse used by the crew and guests of Arthur Curtiss James when disembarking from his 218-foot yacht, Aloha, Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

View from out from inside the Children’s Gallery, flanked by tile murals, The Babes in the Wood, 1903 (left) and The Goose Girl, 1903 by William Rowe, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

The Arlyn Table by George Nakashima, at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Courtyard outside the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, privately owned by philanthropist and collector Rudy Ciccarello and designed in partnership with Alfonso Architects, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.

Exterior of the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, privately owned by philanthropist and collector Rudy Ciccarello and designed in partnership with Alfonso Architects, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.