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Chapel Hill: Museum
 Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Ackland Art Museum animates, inspires, and transforms people’s lives with works of art. As an academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Museum acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets works of art to fulfill...
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OPERATION HOURS:
Sunday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Wednesday - Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR(S)
Emily Kass
FOUNDED:
1958
The Ackland Art Museum animates, inspires, and transforms people’s lives with works of art. As an academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Museum acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets works of art to fulfill the University’s mission to provide teaching, research, and public service to the citizens of North Carolina. The Ackland holds in trust more than 15,000 original works of art acquired exclusively through private philanthropy for the benefit of the people of North Carolina. Distinguished by the region’s most important public collections of Asian art, drawings, prints, and photographs, the Ackland Collection also includes noteworthy Ancient, Mediterranean, African, European, Modern, and Contemporary art. The Museum features three to four major special exhibitions a year in addition to a full schedule of special collection installations. Exhibitions range in subject matter from classical to contemporary. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art; At the Heart of Progress: Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection, Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum, and the annual exhibition of graduating students from the UNC-Chapel Hill MFA program in visual art. Education is central to the Ackland. Collaborations with members of the University and the community take many forms: gallery lessons tailored to specific course objectives, approaches for informal learning in the Ackland, student and faculty research projects, and more. Over 14,000 visitors are from local schools and across campus, from kindergarteners to graduate students, these young people experience the Museum through the lens of academic study. The Ackland features an expanded schedule of monthly public programming, including Yoga in the Galleries, Art after Dark, Lunch with One, Music in the Galleries, Art & Literature in the Galleries, and Drawing in the Galleries. In addition, the Museum hosts exhibition related lectures, symposia, special events, and community days throughout the year.
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