Marguilies Photography Collections

What Marguilies Photography Collections does

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse is a nonprofit art institution located in a 50,000 square foot retro-fitted warehouse in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, operated and funded by the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation. Founded in 1999 by collector Martin Z. Margulies, the institution presents seasonal exhibitions (October through April) of contemporary art drawn from a private collection of 4,000-5,000+ works spanning sculpture, photography, video, installation art, and painting by major 20th and 21st century artists including Joan Miró, Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, and others. The collection has been consistently named to the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list and is recognized internationally as one of the most important private collections of its kind.

The institution serves three primary audiences: students and educational institutions (via free guided tours led by Martin Margulies or curator Katherine Hinds), the general public and art enthusiasts (via seasonal public access at $10 adult admission), and museums and cultural institutions (via an international loan program and a philanthropic donations program that has placed 400+ works with national organizations). The organization maintains a small professional team of 11-50 employees, including founder Martin Z. Margulies, longtime curator Katherine Hinds (40+ years tenure), associate curator Jeanie Ambrosio, and collections manager Nunzio Auricchio.

The business model is philanthropic rather than revenue-generating: all admission fees are donated directly to the Lotus Village Shelter for Homeless Women and Children, and the Foundation also purchased a building to house at-risk teenagers for the shelter. Operating costs are sustained by the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation through private collector contributions. The institution generates earned media through coverage in The New York Times, Financial Times, ARTnews, and Art Basel, and maintains a publication program (two-volume catalog set published 2018-2019). The warehouse is currently temporarily closed and scheduled to reopen with new exhibitions in Fall 2026.

Name

Marguilies Photography Collections

Legal name

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse

Website

https://www.margulieswarehouse.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse is a nonprofit art institution in Miami's Wynwood Arts District that presents seasonal exhibitions of contemporary photography, sculpture, painting, video, and installation art from a 4,000-5,000+ work private collection, serving students, art enthusiasts, and museums through free educational tours and an international loan program.

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Miami

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United States

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North America

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B2C

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Services

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Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Admission Donations: Admission fees ($10 for adults, free for students) are donated directly to Lotus Village Shelter for Homeless Women and Children rather than retained as revenue. This is a philanthropic model.
2. Philanthropic Donations Program: The Martin Z. Margulies Foundation donates works from the collection to support non-profit art institutions. In 2020, 400 works were donated to national organizations.

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Core offering

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse is a nonprofit art institution that exhibits the contemporary art collection of Martin Z. Margulies—4,000-5,000+ works of sculpture, photography, video, painting, and large-scale installation—through seasonal exhibitions in a 50,000 sq ft warehouse in Miami's Wynwood Arts District. It offers guided educational tours, a Photography Study Center with archive access, a publication program, and an international loan program sharing works with museums and educational institutions globally.

Product overview

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse is a nonprofit art institution that serves as a major public exhibition space for the private collection of Martin Z. Margulies. The institution operates from a 50,000 square foot retro-fitted warehouse in Miami's Wynwood Arts District and presents seasonal exhibitions from October through April each year. The core offerings include rotating exhibitions featuring sculpture, photography, video, painting, and large-scale installations by internationally significant artists, supported by educational programs including guided tours led by the collector and curator, a Photography Study Center with archives and resources, and a publication program producing books documenting the collection. The institution also maintains an international loan program sharing works with museums worldwide.

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Products and services

• The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse A nonprofit art institution located in a 50,000 square foot retro-fitted warehouse in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, presenting seasonal exhibitions of sculpture, photography, video, painting, and large-scale installations from the collection of Martin Z. Margulies.
• Seasonal Exhibition Program Seasonal exhibitions (October through April) featuring sculpture, photography, video, installation art, and painting by internationally renowned artists from the Margulies Collection.
• Educational Tours and Programs Guided tours led by Martin Margulies or curator Katherine Hinds for school groups, museum groups, and the general public, along with lectures, guest speakers, seminars, internships, and educational initiatives.
• Photography Study Center Archives of vintage and contemporary European and American photography with open access to library resources, annual exhibition programs, tours, and appointments.
• International Loan Program Sharing the collection through gifts and generous loans to national and international museums and educational institutions.
• Martin Z. Margulies Collection Publications (Volumes I & II) Two-volume book set documenting the artists who have shaped the collection: Volume I covers painting and sculpture from the private collection, while Volume II focuses on photography, video, large-scale sculpture, and installations shown at the Warehouse.

Quantifiable outcome

• Thousands of students and visitors welcomed annually from all over the world
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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, SC)minorOthers · 1 January 2023The exhibition 'The Bitter Years Photography' (81 photographs from the Farm Security Administration) traveled from the Margulies Collection to the Gibbes Museum of Art, where it was on view through January 14, 2024.
• Bakehouse Art ComplexminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 19 November 2020The Martin Margulies Foundation donated over 50 photographs to the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami to kickstart their online sales platform called 'Fresh Goods' during the pandemic to help maintain and expand programming for emerging and mid-career artists.
• dOCUMENTA (13)minorOthers · 1 January 2012Works from the Margulies Collection have been exhibited at dOCUMENTA (13), including Amar Kanwar's 'The Sovereign Forest' and Kader Attia's 'De Repair'.
• Foto Colectania Foundation (Barcelona)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLongstanding partnership since 2011 involving traveling exhibitions. The Margulies Collection has exhibited photography works from Barcelona, while the Foto Colectania Foundation in Spain has exhibited works from the Margulies Collection. In 2024, Foto Colectania curated an exhibition of 150 Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese photographs at the Margulies Warehouse.
• Lotus Village Shelter for Homeless Women and ChildrenflagshipOthersAll admission fees ($10 for adults) are donated directly to the Lotus Village Shelter. The Margulies Foundation also purchased a building to house at-risk teenagers for the shelter. In 2020, 40 artworks were sold to benefit the shelter with 100% of proceeds going directly to the shelter.
• Bruce Silverstein Gallery (New York)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the 'Brancusi: The Photographs' exhibition (2014), featuring 29 rare vintage gelatin silver prints from the early 20th century. The Margulies Collection worked with the gallery to bring these works to Miami audiences.

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Direct peers

• Rubell Museum: Miami-based contemporary art museum founded by the Rubell family in a converted warehouse, displaying their private collection of contemporary art. Highly comparable given shared Miami Wynwood-adjacent warehouse exhibition model, private collection origins, and contemporary art focus.
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami): Miami-based contemporary art museum in the Design District. Directly comparable given shared Miami geography, contemporary art focus, and overlap in artist representation; ICA Miami is also a documented donation recipient from the Margulies Collection.
• Glenstone: Privately funded contemporary art museum in Potomac, MD showcasing the Mitchell and Rales family collection. Highly comparable model — private collector institution offering free public access to a major contemporary art collection with rigorous curatorial standards.

Broad incumbents

• Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Miami's flagship contemporary art museum with broader institutional mandate and larger scale. Comparable as a South Florida contemporary art venue targeting similar audiences but operates at much larger scale with mixed funding model.
• The Broad: Los Angeles-based contemporary art museum presenting the Eli Broad collection. Comparable as a private-contemporary-art-collector-founded museum offering free admission with educational programming in a similarly warehouse-style exhibition space.
• Fondazione Prada: Milan-based contemporary art institution founded as a corporate cultural initiative. Comparable as a contemporary art institution with international programmatic ambitions, museum-style exhibitions, and foundation funding model.
• Punta della Dogana / Pinault Collection: Venice-based contemporary art museum displaying François Pinault's collection in a converted warehouse. Comparable given the warehouse-conversion exhibition model and focus on private collector-driven contemporary art presentation.

Regional players

• The Bass Museum of Art: Contemporary art museum in Miami Beach serving similar South Florida audiences with overlapping contemporary art programming. Comparable institutional scale and visitor demographic in the same metro.
• NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale: South Florida contemporary art museum with significant collections including works by the same era of artists represented at the Margulies Collection. Comparable as a regional contemporary art institution serving similar Florida audiences.
• Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami: University of Miami art museum and confirmed donation recipient from the Margulies Foundation. Comparable as a regional art institution with shared Miami geography and overlapping artist representation in the collection.

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Customer concentration

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