On Rugby Road, a short distance from the Rotunda, you have found the Fralin Museum of Art, housed in the historic Thomas H. Bayly Building. This university museum—known before 2012 as the University of Virginia Art Museum—was inaugurated in 1935 in a building designed by Edmund S. Campbell, the School of Art and Architecture dean who served as its first director. Inside the museum's permanent collection are nearly 14,000 works.
You'll find strong holdings of African art, American Indian art, and European and American painting, along with photography and works on paper. The Fralin operates as a teaching museum for University of Virginia academic departments and reaches the wider community through several outreach programs. In the spring of 2012, Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin announced a bequest of their collection of American art, and the Board of Visitors voted to name the museum the Fralin Museum of Art in their honor.
Admission here is free of charge and open to the public, so you can explore those collections with no barrier. Notice the Bayly Building on Rugby Road, and the Rotunda just beyond it.