The Florina Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum in Florina in Greece.It was founded by the Florina Art Centre in 1977.It is housed in a neoclassical building by the Skouleva river.The museum's collection is composed of 480 works by 254 artists, which includes paintings, sculptures and engravings.More recently, its collection was enriched by a work of El Greco donated by the national Gallery, as well as by 44 engravings from Florence.These are in display since August 1999.Apart from its permanent exhibition, the museum also organizes art symposia and exhibitions of visual and applied art.
The purpose of the museum is to promote modern Greek culture through products of contemporary art, to cultivate the aesthetic and critical faculties of the local people by mounting solo and group exhibitions of visual art, and to provide schoolchildren with artistic education.
