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Holiday Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm Holiday Closure Dates: Saturday, December 3rd the University Museum will close after the Winter Woodland Wandering Family Activity Day at 1pm Closed Saturday, December 1oth Closed Saturday, December 17th Closed for the Winter Holiday Season beginning Tuesday, December 20th at 4:00p.m. We will reopen with our regular hours Tuesday, January 3rd, … Read more
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (drop-in)
UM Museum
COST: FREE
OCTOBER 25, 2022 – AUGUST 26, 2023
This exhibit features works from the W. Forrest and Joan Stevens Collection, including Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Calder, that disrupted the status quo in art, from modernism into the postmodernism movement.
OCTOBER 11, 2022 – APRIL 8, 2023
Earl Dismuke, a Mississippi native, is an abstract expressionist sculptor who gathers and assembles discarded material, mostly metal. Like a Rorschach test for the viewer, his resulting sculptures may evoke playful nostalgia, while others are slightly unsettling and prickly. This is Earl Dismuke’s first solo museum exhibit.
AUGUST 17, 2021 – SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Whether it be small intricate drawings or massive hovering forms consisting of thousands of kite-like discs, Jacob Hashimoto playfully balances the dichotomies he observes in landscapes and constructed virtual worlds. Exhibit is on view at both the University Museum and Rowan Oak.
AUGUST 2, 2022 – JULY 8, 2023
On October 1, 1962, the University of Mississippi was officially integrated with the admission of its first African American student James Meredith. The images, personal accounts, and artifacts in this exhibit exemplify the infamous and deadly Ole Miss Riot, a final segregationist opposition to Meredith’s year-long battle for admission.
Cost: FREE! The Museum offers fun-filled activity days for children to experience with their families. These events coincide with exhibits, holidays, and other special events—enriching the museum experience for all ages. Winter Woodland Wandering SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022 9:00 a.m. – NOON (DROP-IN) During this special family day we will create seasonal projects … Read more
This summer, join us for a lunchtime lecture the First Tuesday of the month. Lunch options will be available in the lobby or brown bag your lunch! Tuesday, May 3rd 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Behind the Scenes at Your Museum: How Exhibits are Made Grace Moorman, UM Assistant Manager of Exhibitions and Collections … Read more
Join us Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5:30pm-7:30pm, for Weird Regionalism: The Art of John McCrady and William Faulkner, a lecture by Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies, and Brooke P. Alexander, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History. Refreshments will be served. The presentation will begin at 6, with time for questions … Read more
In the spring of 2017, the University of Mississippi Museum was added as a featured point along the Yokna Sculpture Trail. Featuring a rotating exhibit of 18 large- scale sculptures by locally, regionally, and nationally renowned exhibiting artists, this collaboration between the City of Oxford, The University of Mississippi, and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council … Read more