The New Hampshire Seacoast's premier art museum -- a center for the visual arts where visitors gather to enjoy changing exhibitions, music, lectures, and receptions.
The Museum of Art is dedicated to service in two major areas: academic programs and community outreach. As a teaching museum, it provides students at the University of New Hampshire with challenging opportunities to learn from works of art on a first-hand basis. In community outreach, the Museum of Art is a center for the visual arts, where members of the University community and visitors to the University can enjoy art exhibitions and programs of high quality and broad interest.
The Museum of Art fulfills these roles by presenting an active schedule of changing exhibitions of art, educational programs (lectures, concerts, and gallery talks) for both the campus and off-campus communities, an outreach program (lending library and guided tours of exhibitions) geared toward K-12 teachers and school children, and the maintenance of a permanent art collection utilized for exhibitions, teaching, and research.
The Museum of Art cares for a permanent collection of 1,700 works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. The collection emphasizes nineteenth- and twentieth-century prints and drawings and includes nearly two hundred Japanese woodblock prints. Annual exhibitions feature works from the permanent collection.
The Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire collects, preserves, and presents works of art, serving as a visual arts resource and an educational
catalyst for the University and the Seacoast community. The Museum of Art
inspires life-learning by offering experiences to engage with art through
exhibitions, hands-on study, educational programs, and the creative process.
