In 1996 the Museum of Latin America Art (MOLAA) was established in the City of Long Beach by the Robert Gumbiner Foundation (RGF) charged with a mission to build a significant permanent collection of contemporary Latin American art created by those artists who live and work in the Spanish-Portuguese speaking regions of Mexico, Central and South American and the Caribbean.
At the time of the museum’s inception, the art collection of the Robert Gumbiner Foundation was the basis of the museum’s effort. Over the past decade and more, the RGF Collection and the MOLAA Permanent Collection have grown to now represent more than over 900 works of art—painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography and video—by more than 350 Latin American artists from the 20 Latin American countries included in the MOLAA mission.