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| University of New Hampshire Museum of Art | |
|---|---|
| Name | University of New Hampshire Museum of Art |
| Established | 1978 |
| Location | Durham, New Hampshire, United States |
| Type | University museum |
| Director | [Director's name] |
| Collection size | [approximate number] |
| Website | [official website] |
University of New Hampshire Museum of Art The University of New Hampshire Museum of Art is a campus-based museum located in Durham, New Hampshire that serves as a cultural hub for the University of New Hampshire, the New England region, and national audiences. The museum organizes rotating exhibitions, maintains a permanent collection, and conducts public programs that connect visual art to broader humanities and sciences studies across institutions such as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Princeton University and Smithsonian Institution. It collaborates with museums and galleries including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Tate Modern.
The museum originated from campus art holdings and teaching collections transferred from departments including Dartmouth College-adjacent exchanges and gifts from collectors linked to New Hampshire Historical Society donors and alumni associated with Amherst College, Boston College, Northeastern University, and Tufts University. Early growth involved loans and curatorial exchanges with institutions such as Columbia University, Princeton University, Brown University, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. Major acquisitions and endowments followed models used by Guggenheim Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and private patrons connected to Kennedy family philanthropy and trustees from Bank of America and BankBoston. The museum’s programmatic expansion paralleled trends at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Frick Collection, National Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and regional entities like Portland Museum of Art.
The permanent collection encompasses historical and contemporary works reflecting American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American art tied to major movements represented at institutions such as Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional del Prado, and Rijksmuseum. Holdings include paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, photography, and new media comparable to objects held by Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery, London, Uffizi Gallery, and Hermitage Museum. The collection features works by artists whose careers intersect with museums like Andy Warhol-related archives at The Andy Warhol Museum, holdings comparable to Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Ansel Adams, and Dorothea Lange. Prints and photographs relate to collections at International Center of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The museum preserves decorative arts and design objects in conversation with collections at Cooper Hewitt, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris.
Exhibition partnerships and touring shows have drawn loans and collaboration with Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, National Portrait Gallery (United States), Getty Research Institute, MOMA PS1, Dia Art Foundation, and SFMOMA. Curated thematic exhibitions have addressed topics resonant with collections at Tate Britain, Royal Academy of Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Fondation Beyeler, and Neue Nationalgalerie. Programs include artist residencies, juried biennials, and symposiums modeled after initiatives at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Banff Centre, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), and Frieze Art Fair. The museum has mounted exhibitions exploring printmaking connected to The Print Council of America, photography dialogues referencing Ansel Adams Wilderness, and contemporary sculpture dialogues akin to Storm King Art Center.
Educational programming aligns with university curricula and external school partnerships with districts and institutions similar to Boston Public Schools, Portsmouth Public Schools, Manchester School District, Seacoast Science Center, and Currier Museum of Art. Outreach includes family days, teacher workshops, docent training, and community lectures inspired by models at Carnegie Museum of Art, Children’s Museum of Boston, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Peabody Essex Museum. Interdisciplinary collaborations have linked exhibitions to departments and centers such as Dartmouth College Department of Art, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Art Museums, Cornell University, Brown University Department of Visual Art, and research initiatives similar to Council on Library and Information Resources projects.
The museum occupies galleries and storage spaces on the University of New Hampshire campus, with building planning influenced by precedent projects at I.M. Pei-designed sites, gallery designs employed by Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Louis Kahn, and conservation standards aligned with the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Collection storage, climate control, and conservation labs follow protocols used at National Archives and Records Administration, Library of Congress, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, and university museums like Yale University Art Gallery and Harvard Art Museums.
Governance includes oversight by university administration, advisory boards, and donors similar to structures at Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire, private boards that mirror governance at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution advisory committees, and foundation partners such as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Funding sources combine state appropriations, tuition-related support, grants, private philanthropy, and earned income akin to revenue models at Princeton University Art Museum, Duke University Museum of Art, Columbia University’s collections, and nonprofit cultural institutions supported by National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Category:University museums in New Hampshire Category:Art museums and galleries in New Hampshire