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This guided tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of stone in the Art on Campus Collection. 

The Farm House Museum will be closed Saturday, July 2 through Sunday, August 21.

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your photos of Border Crossing on Central Campus.

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your selfies at the Brunnier Art Museum. Stop by on Sunday, July 10 for a free guided tour at 2:00pm.

Join your University Museums for free 30-minute Sunday Tours at the Brunnier Art Museum! This Sunday Tour is led by docent Rae Reilly.

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your selfies at the Christian Petersen Art Museum. Stop by on Sunday, July 17 for a free Curator's Walk of the Julie W Chang exhibition at 1:00pm.

Join curator Sydney Marshall for a walk through the Julie Chang exhibition in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. Closing on Friday July 22 at 4:00pm, this is your last chance for a tour through the exhibition!

Join your University Museums for free 30-minute Sunday Tours at the Brunnier Art Museum! 

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your photos of animals: your pets, in nature, or art, all on campus.

An art walk that will focus on the handcrafted wood of Sticks, featured throughout campus. Begins outside of the Memorial Union by the Fountain of Four Seasons and concludes in the Horticulture lobby. Led by docent Cindy Scholten.

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your selfies with works of art in the Art on Campus Collection.

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your photos of insects in nature or art on campus.

Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your photos of people. These can be people with or in the Art on Campus Collection.

Your University Museums has a booth at the Ames Main Street Farmers' Market. Stop by, say hello, learn about our new fall exhibitions & programs, and experience some hands-on activities from our education kits.

Bring your lunch and join curator Sydney Marshall for a midday walkthrough in the Anderson Sculpture Garden. The sculptures in this space have a unique placement in and around hundreds of living plants.

Join Curator Adrienne Gennett for a tour of the brand-new exhibition John Buck: Prints and Sculpture From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Explore the diverse range of symbols and figures Buck employs to comment on contemporary politics and society through his prints and wood sculptures.

Join University Museums for an Art Walk centered on the art students pass every day. Learn about the artists and the tradition of creating a campus filled with accessible public works of art.

You are invited to celebrate the new exhibition John Buck: Prints and Sculpture From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation on view in the Brunnier Art Museum. Light refreshments served.

Join curator Sydney Marshall for an introduction to the exhibition Double Take: Insights on Abstraction in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. Explore the concept of abstraction in figural art and its effects on viewer’s interpretations.

Take a virtual tour of the newest installation at the Brunnier Art Museum. Glass artist Andy Paiko will give insight into his unique glass sculptures as he installed his chandelier in the Ann Brunnier Decorative Arts Gallery. Curator Adrienne Gennett will discuss the importance of the newest addition to the permanent glass collection.

Curator Allison Sheridan will lead an in-depth exploration of the Farm House Museum and the current exhibition Arts & Craftsman: Honesty, Simplicity and Truth to Materials.

Nancy Smith and Kathy Piersma from Grand Rapids, MI will present a program describing the various aspects and designs of Early American Pattern Glass. All visitors bringing glass into the museum will need to sign a waiver absolving University Museums, Iowa State University of any liability or loss.

Join Curators Deb Lewis of the Ada Hayden Herbarium and Sydney Marshall of University Museums in a collaborative tour examining the scientific, living, and museum collections on campus. Please register to guarantee a spot on this tour- space inside the Herbarium is limited.

University Museums has you covered with free food, crafts, AND beautiful art for a fun and unique night with your significant other or friends.

Virtually tour Centerville, Iowa’s Drake Hall with owners Gerhard Spillmann and Kyle Shiroma along with University Museums’ staff.

Join Museum Security & Education Program Assistant Nicholas Scott on an art walk focusing on the Arts and Crafts Movement found in the Art on Campus Collection.