ABOUT THE MUSEUM

No matter what your perspective, you can experience art from all angles at the Indiana University Art Museum. From world-renowned architect I.M. Pei's soaring triangular atrium, to galleries filled with extraordinary works of art from all corners of the globe, the IU Art Museum will engage, stimulate, and satisfy your curiosity about the worlds of art.

Since its establishment in 1941, the IU Art Museum has grown from a small university teaching collection into one of the foremost university art museums in the country. Today, the IU Art Museum's internationally acclaimed collections, ranging from ancient gold jewelry and African masks to paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, include over 40,000 objects representing nearly every art-producing culture throughout history.

Mission Statement
The IU Art Museum’s mission is to preserve, exhibit, collect, research, publish, and interpret original works of art to advance the academic goals of Indiana University and to enrich the cultural lives and spiritual well-being of society.

Admission is free.

SCHEDULING TOURS

The Indiana University Art Museum offers tours of its collections free of charge. The museum has a very active tour program that serves over 15,000 patrons each year, of which approximately half are children.

The museum’s education department can customize a program around various disciplines, themes, issues, and ideas expressed in a class curriculum. We gave over 500 curriculum-based tours last year.

Educators can also arrange special interactive tours of historical buildings or art on campus, including the famous Thomas Hart Benton murals. The museum offers a docent-led public tour every Saturday at 2:00 p.m.; a special, docent-led thematic tour is offered at 2:00 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month. The museum’s education department can provide audio description tours and/or touch tours for people with low vision (two-week minimum). To schedule a tour, please call our tour coordinator at (812) 855-7719. When scheduling a tour, we ask that you keep in mind the following:

We need at least two weeks' notice to schedule a guided tour of the collections. We need at least four weeks' notice to schedule customized tours based on themes, issues, and/or ideas in a class's curriculum. We will send you a letter to confirm your tour. No tour is regarded as confirmed by the museum's education department without a written letter of confirmation.

Please call ahead to inform us of any group visit to the galleries.

ACCESSABILITY

All museum facilities are accessible to people with disabilities. The north entrance on the mezzanine level is wheelchair accessible, with a curb cut leading from the parking lot to the door. An elevator that reaches all floors of the museum is self operated and wheelchair accessible.

To arrange tours for people with special needs, please call the museum's education department at (812) 855-7719.