Mission
THE DRIEHAUS MUSEUM ENGAGES AND INSPIRES THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY THROUGH EXPLORATION AND ONGOING CONVERSATIONS IN ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND DESIGN OF THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES. ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION AND TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS ARE PRESENTED IN AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE RESTORED NICKERSON MANSION, COMPLETED IN 1883, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE GILDED AGE, AND THE 1926 MURPHY AUDITORIUM. THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION REFLECTS AND IS INSPIRED BY THE COLLECTING INTERESTS, VISION, AND FOCUS OF ITS FOUNDER, THE LATE RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS.