Fort Wayne Museum of Art
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| Established | 1897 (art school) 1921 (museum) |
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| Location | 311 East Main Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 United States 
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| Director | Charles A. Shepard III |
| Website | Official website |
Coordinates: 41°4′52.88″N 85°8′8.85″W / 41.0813556°N 85.1357917°W
The Fort Wayne Museum of Art (FWMoA) is a Contemporary art museum located in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, Allen County, United States. The Fort Wayne Museum of Art contains permanent collections and national traveling exhibitions and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. FWMoA annually receives about 100,000 visitors.
The Fort Wayne Museum of Art was earliest conceived in 1888 when J. Ottis Adams, and later William Forsyth, began teaching informal art classes. By the year 1897, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art School was formally organized from the art classes that had been in session for the past nine years. The function of "museum" was integrated into the school when a collection of ten paintings was donated by Theodore Thieme in 1921. By 1949, the B. Paul Mossman Home at 1202 West Wayne Street in downtown Fort Wayne was donated to the museum, giving the museum an entire facility for the first time in its history to showcase exhibitions and collections. In 1977, the museum separated from the art school, the latter becoming the Department of Fine Arts at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.
The Fort Wayne Museum of Art's current home is a structure that opened in 1984 at the intersection of Lafayette Street and Main Street in downtown Fort Wayne. Today, the museum, along with neighboring Arts United Center and Auer Center for Arts and Culture (opened in 2011), serve as the nucleus for downtown's burgeoning Cultural District. After the museum's move in 1984, the B. Paul Mossman Home was converted back to a private residence. In 1995, the homeowners returned the home back to hosting art as the Castle Gallery.
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