The collection of paintings and sculptures in Faaborg Museum consists mainly of works by the circle of Funenite artists, who, together with the founder, Councillor of State and Preserves Manufacturer Mads Rasmussen, established the Museum in 1910 in "Konservesgaarden" in Faaborg.

Peter Hansen, Fritz Syberg, Johannes Larsen and Poul S. Christiansen were all students of the Zahrtmann Art School in Copenhagen, together with other artists with associations to the island of Funen - the sculptor Kai Nielsen and the painters Jens Birkholm, Karl Schou, Harald Giersing, Anna Syberg, Christine Swane and Alhed Larsen.

The Museum building was designed 1915 by the Architect Carl Petersen. The short, curved facade conceals a row of varied colourful galleries. In 1997 the original museum was extended with a new building by the Architect Niels Frithiof Truelsen containing galleries for graphic art and watercolours and a winter garden with the artist's flowers and plants.