List of university museums in the United States explained
This is a list of college and university museums in the United States.
Overview
University art museums and galleries are collections of art that are developed, owned, and maintained by schools, colleges, and universities. There are approximately 680 university art museums and galleries in the United States.[1] While historically the origins of these kinds of institutions can be traced back to learning collections in art academies in Western Europe, they are now most often housed in centers of higher education. The primary aim of many university art museums and galleries is to create a sphere removed from the pressures of the commercial art world where students, artists, curators, and faculty can experiment freely; in terms of both making and exhibiting art, and also curating.
Distinctions between art museums, galleries, and academic museums
An art museum houses a permanent collection, whereas a gallery usually hosts a changing program of art exhibitions. However, some university and college art galleries also feature permanent collections or showcase collections owned by the larger institution. Some institutions have a museum or an art gallery, and some have both. Others, such as the City College of New York, have important collections but neither a museum nor a dedicated gallery.
Art schools in the United States often have many gallery spaces on campus. Maryland Institute College of Art has 21 galleries.
Many university and college libraries also feature galleries to showcase items from their collections, which can include art, music, poetry, literary works and ephemera.
Another important distinction is the difference between art museums and academic museums. All university art museums and galleries are types of academic museums, but not all academic museums are university art museums and galleries.
Vulnerability in times of crisis
University art museums function in a number of different ways. Some exist as affiliates of a university, operated by a separate board of trustees and administration, while others are nested within the institution. Art museum collections can become vulnerable to deaccession due to fiscal issues. One such example of a controversial deaccession was the Randolph College scandal; when the administration sold paintings from the museum's collection without the permission of the museum.[2]
Academic freedoms and artistic freedoms of expression
University art museums and galleries differ from traditional art museums and commercial galleries due to their relationship with institutions of higher education where academic freedoms are ideally upheld. With the protection of academic freedoms, topics that would otherwise be avoided, ignored, or censored can be openly explored.[3] The two main academic freedoms are: the freedom of the student to study whatever they want, and the freedom of the teacher to teach whatever they want.[4] When these two freedoms are observed, in the context of a university art museum and/or gallery, a unique setting for academic discovery is opened up. University art museums and exhibits are sometimes sources of controversies regarding issues of propriety, politics, gender, and sexuality.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
NSU ART MUSEUM
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
See also: List of museums and collections at the University of Michigan.
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
See also: List of university art museums and galleries in New York State.
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Clark . Laine . National Directory . University Art Museums & Galleries in Virginia . 2014-06-10.
- Web site: National Gallery buys George Bellows painting from Randolph College . Los Angeles Times . 2014-02-07 . 2014-06-10.
- Web site: The Tang Museum's Classless Society exhibit examines ideas of social class and the American Dream . Skidmore College News . 2014-02-11 . 2014-06-18.
- James Morgan Hart, German Universities: A Narrative of Personal Experiences (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1874); quoted in Leo L. Rockwell, “Academic Freedom: German Origin and American Development,” Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 36, 2 (Summer 1950): 225-236.
- Web site: Alabama Museum of Natural History – University of Alabama Museums . 2023-07-31 . en-US.
- Web site: About the Museum – The Evelyn Burrow Museum. 2020-11-05. en-US.
- Web site: Gorgas House Museum – University of Alabama Museums site . 2023-07-31 . en-US.
- Web site: Warner Transportation Museum – University of Alabama Museums . 2023-07-31 . en-US.
- Web site: Moundville Archaeological Park – University of Alabama Museums . 2023-07-31 . en-US.
- Web site: Paul W Bryant Museum – University of Alabama The University of Alabama . 2023-07-31 . en-US.
- Web site: University of Alabama Museums – The University of Alabama . 2023-07-31 . museums.ua.edu.
- Web site: Talladega College Holds Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Official Grand Opening of New Museum Named for Alumnus and Hampton University President Dr. William R. Harvey, Home of the Amistad Murals : Hampton University News . 2023-10-19 . news.hamptonu.edu.
- Web site: Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona. 2020-11-05. www.pima.edu.
- Web site: About . . . 19 February 2022.
- News: Vankin . Deborah . February 27, 2019 . Southern California's newest art museum will be called the Benton . . September 8, 2020.
- Web site: Archaeology Museum - Trinidad State Junior College. 2020-11-05. trinidadstate.edu.
- Web site: - Oakton Community College. 2020-11-05. www.oakton.edu.
- Web site: Gordon Parks Museum – Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott, KS. 2020-11-05. en-US.
- News: Kennedy . Randy . Vogel . Carol . January 28, 2009 . Outcry Over a Plan to Sell Museum's Holdings . . C1, NY Edition.
- Web site: Who we are . 2023-07-31 . Williams College Museum of Art . en-US.
- Web site: Draper . David . Meteorite Museum . 2024-04-23 . Meteorite Museum.
- Web site: Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum and Natural Science Laboratory. 2020-11-05. Mesalands Community College. en-US.
- Web site: Geology Museum . 2024-04-23.
- Web site: About the Mercer Gallery Visual & Performing Arts Monroe Community College. 2020-11-05. www.monroecc.edu.
- Web site: Plaza Art Gallery. 2020-11-05. www.ncc.edu.
- Web site: Werner Wildlife Museum. 2020-11-05. Casper College. en-US.