The Fairfield University Art Museum was founded in 2010 and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 2024. In its Bellarmine Hall Galleries, the Museum displays its permanent collection alongside rotating special exhibitions. The permanent collection features European and American paintings – including a core group of 10 Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection – drawings, prints, photographs, and historic plaster casts as well as artwork from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Also on view are works of art on long-term loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Worcester Art Museum, the American Numismatic Society, Columbia University, and private collections. In the Walsh Gallery, located in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, the Museum presents larger special exhibitions. The Museum is always free and open to all.