This museum opened on the campus of UC Berkeley in 1970. Today its collection counts more than 16,000 objects and 14,000 films and videos. The fine arts portion of the institution was established after a donation of 45 paintings from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann.

Today its art collection includes works from the entire range of time periods and locales. Highlights …Read more…

Formerly the Leland Stanford Jr. Art Museum, the Cantor Center was re-opened in 1999 after being extensively damaged in two earthquakes. Visitors should definitely check out the Rodin sculpture garden, which contains 20 bronzes, and the center’s excellent collection of ancient Mediterranean, Asian, African, and Native American art. The modern and contemporary American art collection is also recommended. ...Read more...

One of three public arts units of the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA, The Hammer Museum presents exhibitions of contemporary and historical work in all media of the visual arts. Committed to promoting cultural understanding, to introducing the work of underrepresented artists, and to interpreting art of the past and present, the Museum has a series of temporary exhibitions in addition to displaying selections from its permanent collections.

The …Read more…

Located on the campus of the University of Utah, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is Utah’s only visual arts institution that collects, exhibits, interprets, and preserves a comprehensive collection of original art objects, more than 18,000 of them, from throughout the world. UMFA is unique in its dual role as a university and a state art museum.

The roots of the UMFA date back to the early 1900s. In …Read more…

The University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA) is part of UA’s ‘Museum Neighborhood’, a grouping of four museums in close proximity on the University campus.  UAMA maintains a busy schedule of exhibitions, of works in all different media from all eras in art history to the present, including exhibitions by UA students and faculty.  The permanent collection of over 5,000 works of art includes a number of collections donated …Read more…

The Blaffer is the art museum of the University of Houston, and has one of the city’s premier contemporary art collections. It has exhibited the work of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Julian Schnabel and architect Richard Neutra. Since it opened in 1973, it has been an important part of the city’s art scene, showing works by the Texas artist Michael Tracy, French royal jewels from the Smithsonian, …Read more…

UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art was, for most of its existence, big – now, it’s crossed the line to gargantuan. Housed in the 90,000-square foot Conrad Elvehjem building since its opening in 1970, the Chazen nearly doubled in size in October 2011 with the dedication of a second building. This second, as yet unnamed, building is conjoined with the Elvehjem via a third-story walkway and features an auditorium for film and lectures, new gallery space, and a grand lobby. ...Read more...

Part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has one of the finest university collections in the United States. With strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs, the collection also includes Egyptian and Greek antiquities and more than one hundred Old Master prints.

Though the museum itself …Read more…

The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is located on the Johnson County Community College (JCCC) campus, and serves the school as well as the greater Johnson County area.  In 2006, JCCC was cited byPublic Art Review magazine as one of the top 10 college campuses for public art in the United States.

The origins of the Nerman collection date back to 1980, when the JCCC board of trustees approved a yearly …Read more…

In the early years of the 20th century, Nathan and Jessie Kimberly Paine intended the mansion, gardens, and surrounding architectural structures that now comprise the Paine Art Center and Gardens as their future home; it would be open to the public as a cultural center, but would also function as a residence. Then the Depression came, and the place fell into neglect; it was only in 1946, a year before Nathan Paine died, that a deal was finalized to establish the Paine as a museum, by which time the Paines had given up on the idea of living there. ...Read more...

The building that houses the Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA) dates to 1900, when it was built to house the St. Louis Club, one of the city’s most exclusive social clubs. After a fire in 1925, the club left the building, which changed hands numerous times before SLU purchased it for use as the home of the SLU Graduate School …Read more…

Spencer Museum of Art, U of Kansas Information

Public Transportation: Good (a short walk from Lawrence Transit bus 36 at the Spencer Museum of Art stop; bus 42 at the Memorial Stadium stop; and buses 10, 11, 30, 32, 38, and 43 at the Kansas Union stop)
Handicapped Accessibility: Good
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sunday Noon–4 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays
Admission: Free
Tour: Several free tour options are available. The …Read more…

The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States, with over 17,000 works from Europe, the United States and Latin America in its permanent collection. Most notable is the Suida-Manning Collection, a superb gathering of Renaissance works by such masters as Veronese, Rubens, and Tiepolo ...Read more...

Recently relocated to the historic McKim, Mead and White building (also known as Cohen Memorial Hall) on Vanderbilt’s Peabody campus, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery contains a permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works of art.

The collection began in 1956 with a donation from Anna C. Hoyt of 105 modern and Old Master prints, and has grown steadily in the years …Read more…

The Ackland Museum, open since 1958, is an academic unit of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  It is one of North Carolina’s most significant resources in the visual arts, with a collection including over 15,000 works of art.  Areas of specialty include Asian art, and works on paper, with additional concentrations of European masterworks, African and contemporary art, and pottery of North Carolina.

Over a dozen exhibitions are featured …Read more…

Located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 30 minutes north of Boston, the Addison Gallery’s collection of American art includes nearly 17,000 objects spanning the 18th century to the present. Created in 1931 by Thomas Cochran, the Addison is guided by his goal “to enrich permanently the lives of the students.” The gallery remains committed to serving the public through free admission and an education outreach program.

The …Read more…

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College has outstanding holdings of nearly 14,000 works of art, providing a comprehensive overview of the history of art. Founded in 1917 – and continuing to offer free admission nearly a century later – the museum has been recognized as one of the five best college and university art museums in the United States.

The museum’s collection is housed in an Italian …Read more…

Located on the campus of Bob Jones University, the Museum and Gallery holds one of the largest collections of European sacred art on the continent. Its collection focuses on the history of Christianity as interpreted by all of Europe’s master artists, from the early 14th through the late 19th centuries. This includes a comprehensive collection of paintings from all eras of European art, a collection of Orthodox icons from Russia …Read more…

Rigorous, unassuming Bowdoin College, near the shore of Casco Bay in coastal Brunswick, Maine, is another in the proud tradition of small, intense Northeastern liberal arts colleges with a sloping, leafy campus and an art museum that invites discussion, observation, and enlightenment by way of a small but well-considered permanent collection. The BCMA was founded in 1811, and is housed in a domed McKim Mead White building that recently underwent …Read more…

The Butler Institute was the first museum dedicated to American art. The original structure, listed on the National Register of Historic places, was dedicated in 1919, and the Institute’s holdings now exceed 20,000 individual works. The Butler charges no admission fee, either at the main location or at its branch museums. These satellite facilities include the Salem branch, which presents selections from the Butler’s permanent collection, exhibitions by nationally-known contemporary …Read more…

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College Information

Public Transportation: Fair (a short walk from bus 443 at Fairbanks Avenue/Chase Avenue)
Handicapped Accessibility: Good
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday Noon–5 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays
Admission: General Admission is $5. Free for members; NARM reciprocal members; children; Rollins College faculty, staff and students; and other college students with a valid ID
Tour: Free with the cost of admission. Docent-led tours …Read more…

Since its founding at the University of Vermont in 1931, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum has grown into the largest art museum in the state. Its permanent collection now numbers approximately 25,000 pieces and spans millennia, with particular emphasis on 19th and 20th century American landscapes, 18th century British portraits, and, not surprisingly, works by Vermont artists from the mid-19th century to the present. All of this is housed …Read more…

Harvard Art Museums consists of three museums that formerly were physically separate: the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. A new museum building designed by architect Renzo Piano will house all three museums in one facility. During the renovation, selected works from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler collections are on display at the Sackler Museum. ...Read more...

Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art has been collecting for over two centuries, yet it only found itself a permanent home less than three decades ago. It’s a fine thing that it ultimately did; the Hood is one of the finest college museums in the country. The permanent collection is broad and varied, with a particular concentration in African and Native American art; over all, the collection touches …Read more…

The small but encyclopedic museum – founded in 1950, it’s the oldest in Miami – has more than 9,000 objects arranged chronologically. The Lowe’s permanent collection has particular concentrations in African, Ancient American, and European art. In particular, the museum is strong in European works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, courtesy of a donation by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. ...Read more...

Middlebury College’s Museum of Art is compact and well-appointed, which is fitting given Middlebury’s status as one of the “Little Ivies.” The museum’s several thousand piece collection ranges from the fourth millennium BCE to the present and runs the gamut of media, with particular strength in 20th Century prints and photographs; notable also are the various works – chiefly sculpture – that dot the campus, including Robert Indiana’s iconic square …Read more…

This museum is part of the city’s esteemed School of Design. Having grown along with the school, it is now the state’s leading art institution, with more than 80,000 objects from around the globe. Its first public galleries were established in 1893, and it has undergone several expansions to accommodate its growing collection.

Its permanent collection is divided into ancient art; Asian art; contemporary …Read more…

The Nasher Museum of Art, founded in 1969, is part of Duke University, and one of the preeminent art institutions in the region. Its permanent collection features more than 13,000 works from the ancient to the contemporary.  It has strong holdings in medieval and Renaissance art, African art, Greek and Roman antiquities, and ancient American art, but is currently building its contemporary art collection.

The museum puts on several exhibitions each year …Read more…

Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State Information

Public Transportation: Good (accessible by all CATA bus routes)
Handicapped Accessibility: Good
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sunday Noon–4 p.m.
 Closed Mondays and some holidays (extended hours on football Fridays)
Admission: Free
Tour: Guided tours are available for school, university, and community groups of ten or more people. Tours are free of charge. Reserve tour at least two weeks in advance of your visit
Membership: Individual membership ($35–$59); …Read more…

This museum opened on the campus of UC Berkeley in 1970. Today its collection counts more than 16,000 objects and 14,000 films and videos. The fine arts portion of the institution was established after a donation of 45 paintings from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann.

Today its art collection includes works from the entire range of time periods and locales. Highlights …Read more…

Formerly the Leland Stanford Jr. Art Museum, the Cantor Center was re-opened in 1999 after being extensively damaged in two earthquakes. Visitors should definitely check out the Rodin sculpture garden, which contains 20 bronzes, and the center’s excellent collection of ancient Mediterranean, Asian, African, and Native American art. The modern and contemporary American art collection is also recommended. ...Read more...

One of three public arts units of the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA, The Hammer Museum presents exhibitions of contemporary and historical work in all media of the visual arts. Committed to promoting cultural understanding, to introducing the work of underrepresented artists, and to interpreting art of the past and present, the Museum has a series of temporary exhibitions in addition to displaying selections from its permanent collections.

The …Read more…

Located on the campus of the University of Utah, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is Utah’s only visual arts institution that collects, exhibits, interprets, and preserves a comprehensive collection of original art objects, more than 18,000 of them, from throughout the world. UMFA is unique in its dual role as a university and a state art museum.

The roots of the UMFA date back to the early 1900s. In …Read more…

The University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA) is part of UA’s ‘Museum Neighborhood’, a grouping of four museums in close proximity on the University campus.  UAMA maintains a busy schedule of exhibitions, of works in all different media from all eras in art history to the present, including exhibitions by UA students and faculty.  The permanent collection of over 5,000 works of art includes a number of collections donated …Read more…

The Blaffer is the art museum of the University of Houston, and has one of the city’s premier contemporary art collections. It has exhibited the work of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Julian Schnabel and architect Richard Neutra. Since it opened in 1973, it has been an important part of the city’s art scene, showing works by the Texas artist Michael Tracy, French royal jewels from the Smithsonian, …Read more…

UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art was, for most of its existence, big – now, it’s crossed the line to gargantuan. Housed in the 90,000-square foot Conrad Elvehjem building since its opening in 1970, the Chazen nearly doubled in size in October 2011 with the dedication of a second building. This second, as yet unnamed, building is conjoined with the Elvehjem via a third-story walkway and features an auditorium for film and lectures, new gallery space, and a grand lobby. ...Read more...

Part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has one of the finest university collections in the United States. With strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs, the collection also includes Egyptian and Greek antiquities and more than one hundred Old Master prints.

Though the museum itself …Read more…

The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is located on the Johnson County Community College (JCCC) campus, and serves the school as well as the greater Johnson County area.  In 2006, JCCC was cited byPublic Art Review magazine as one of the top 10 college campuses for public art in the United States.

The origins of the Nerman collection date back to 1980, when the JCCC board of trustees approved a yearly …Read more…

In the early years of the 20th century, Nathan and Jessie Kimberly Paine intended the mansion, gardens, and surrounding architectural structures that now comprise the Paine Art Center and Gardens as their future home; it would be open to the public as a cultural center, but would also function as a residence. Then the Depression came, and the place fell into neglect; it was only in 1946, a year before Nathan Paine died, that a deal was finalized to establish the Paine as a museum, by which time the Paines had given up on the idea of living there. ...Read more...

The building that houses the Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA) dates to 1900, when it was built to house the St. Louis Club, one of the city’s most exclusive social clubs. After a fire in 1925, the club left the building, which changed hands numerous times before SLU purchased it for use as the home of the SLU Graduate School …Read more…

Spencer Museum of Art, U of Kansas Information

Public Transportation: Good (a short walk from Lawrence Transit bus 36 at the Spencer Museum of Art stop; bus 42 at the Memorial Stadium stop; and buses 10, 11, 30, 32, 38, and 43 at the Kansas Union stop)
Handicapped Accessibility: Good
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sunday Noon–4 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays
Admission: Free
Tour: Several free tour options are available. The …Read more…

The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States, with over 17,000 works from Europe, the United States and Latin America in its permanent collection. Most notable is the Suida-Manning Collection, a superb gathering of Renaissance works by such masters as Veronese, Rubens, and Tiepolo ...Read more...

Recently relocated to the historic McKim, Mead and White building (also known as Cohen Memorial Hall) on Vanderbilt’s Peabody campus, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery contains a permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works of art.

The collection began in 1956 with a donation from Anna C. Hoyt of 105 modern and Old Master prints, and has grown steadily in the years …Read more…

The Ackland Museum, open since 1958, is an academic unit of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  It is one of North Carolina’s most significant resources in the visual arts, with a collection including over 15,000 works of art.  Areas of specialty include Asian art, and works on paper, with additional concentrations of European masterworks, African and contemporary art, and pottery of North Carolina.

Over a dozen exhibitions are featured …Read more…

Located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 30 minutes north of Boston, the Addison Gallery’s collection of American art includes nearly 17,000 objects spanning the 18th century to the present. Created in 1931 by Thomas Cochran, the Addison is guided by his goal “to enrich permanently the lives of the students.” The gallery remains committed to serving the public through free admission and an education outreach program.

The …Read more…

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College has outstanding holdings of nearly 14,000 works of art, providing a comprehensive overview of the history of art. Founded in 1917 – and continuing to offer free admission nearly a century later – the museum has been recognized as one of the five best college and university art museums in the United States.

The museum’s collection is housed in an Italian …Read more…

Located on the campus of Bob Jones University, the Museum and Gallery holds one of the largest collections of European sacred art on the continent. Its collection focuses on the history of Christianity as interpreted by all of Europe’s master artists, from the early 14th through the late 19th centuries. This includes a comprehensive collection of paintings from all eras of European art, a collection of Orthodox icons from Russia …Read more…

Rigorous, unassuming Bowdoin College, near the shore of Casco Bay in coastal Brunswick, Maine, is another in the proud tradition of small, intense Northeastern liberal arts colleges with a sloping, leafy campus and an art museum that invites discussion, observation, and enlightenment by way of a small but well-considered permanent collection. The BCMA was founded in 1811, and is housed in a domed McKim Mead White building that recently underwent …Read more…

The Butler Institute was the first museum dedicated to American art. The original structure, listed on the National Register of Historic places, was dedicated in 1919, and the Institute’s holdings now exceed 20,000 individual works. The Butler charges no admission fee, either at the main location or at its branch museums. These satellite facilities include the Salem branch, which presents selections from the Butler’s permanent collection, exhibitions by nationally-known contemporary …Read more…

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College Information

Public Transportation: Fair (a short walk from bus 443 at Fairbanks Avenue/Chase Avenue)
Handicapped Accessibility: Good
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday Noon–5 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays
Admission: General Admission is $5. Free for members; NARM reciprocal members; children; Rollins College faculty, staff and students; and other college students with a valid ID
Tour: Free with the cost of admission. Docent-led tours …Read more…

Since its founding at the University of Vermont in 1931, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum has grown into the largest art museum in the state. Its permanent collection now numbers approximately 25,000 pieces and spans millennia, with particular emphasis on 19th and 20th century American landscapes, 18th century British portraits, and, not surprisingly, works by Vermont artists from the mid-19th century to the present. All of this is housed …Read more…

Harvard Art Museums consists of three museums that formerly were physically separate: the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. A new museum building designed by architect Renzo Piano will house all three museums in one facility. During the renovation, selected works from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler collections are on display at the Sackler Museum. ...Read more...

Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art has been collecting for over two centuries, yet it only found itself a permanent home less than three decades ago. It’s a fine thing that it ultimately did; the Hood is one of the finest college museums in the country. The permanent collection is broad and varied, with a particular concentration in African and Native American art; over all, the collection touches …Read more…

The small but encyclopedic museum – founded in 1950, it’s the oldest in Miami – has more than 9,000 objects arranged chronologically. The Lowe’s permanent collection has particular concentrations in African, Ancient American, and European art. In particular, the museum is strong in European works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, courtesy of a donation by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. ...Read more...

Middlebury College’s Museum of Art is compact and well-appointed, which is fitting given Middlebury’s status as one of the “Little Ivies.” The museum’s several thousand piece collection ranges from the fourth millennium BCE to the present and runs the gamut of media, with particular strength in 20th Century prints and photographs; notable also are the various works – chiefly sculpture – that dot the campus, including Robert Indiana’s iconic square …Read more…

This museum is part of the city’s esteemed School of Design. Having grown along with the school, it is now the state’s leading art institution, with more than 80,000 objects from around the globe. Its first public galleries were established in 1893, and it has undergone several expansions to accommodate its growing collection.

Its permanent collection is divided into ancient art; Asian art; contemporary …Read more…

The Nasher Museum of Art, founded in 1969, is part of Duke University, and one of the preeminent art institutions in the region. Its permanent collection features more than 13,000 works from the ancient to the contemporary.  It has strong holdings in medieval and Renaissance art, African art, Greek and Roman antiquities, and ancient American art, but is currently building its contemporary art collection.

The museum puts on several exhibitions each year …Read more…

Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State Information

Public Transportation: Good (accessible by all CATA bus routes)
Handicapped Accessibility: Good
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sunday Noon–4 p.m.
 Closed Mondays and some holidays (extended hours on football Fridays)
Admission: Free
Tour: Guided tours are available for school, university, and community groups of ten or more people. Tours are free of charge. Reserve tour at least two weeks in advance of your visit
Membership: Individual membership ($35–$59); …Read more…