The Bellarmine Museum Art

Imagine a collection of art from donations of prominent and local museums to personal gifts of alumni and friends. At the Bellarmine Museum, you'll find:

	The Met Loan The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) and the affiliated Cloisters Museum have agreed to lend twenty Celtic and Medieval art objects for variable periods. This loan, the largest of its type made by the MMA in over a decade, speaks to the integrity of the Bellarmine Museum project. It also raises the exciting prospect of future collaborations with the MMA and other world-class institutions.
	The Kress Collection The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Paintings at Fairfield University comprises ten paintings by minor masters of the Renaissance and Baroque. These artworks were donated to the University in 2002 by the Museum of Art, Science & Industry (now The Discovery Museum) in Bridgeport, Connecticut to honor the spirit of Samuel H. Kress's "Gift to the Nation." This "Gift" presented in excess of 3,000 works of European art to the National Gallery of Art, regional museums, and college and university galleries across the United States.
	The Plaster Cast Collection Fairfield University's rapidly expanding Plaster Cast Collection is composed of casts after works of art from the Classical world through the Renaissance, with an emphasis on ancient Greece and the Parthenon. A majority of the casts have been lent to the University on a long-term loan or gifted by the MMA from its historic cast collection.
	The Asian Art Collection The Asian Art Collection at Fairfield University has grown over the years through the generosity of alumni and friends. The collection, which features works from China, Thailand, India, and Persia, provides a critical window onto distant cultures. This in turn fosters knowledge, understanding, appreciation, tolerance and respect, all of which are critical facets of Fairfield's commitment to Global Citizenry.