Mead Art Museum

The Mead Art Museum houses the art collection of Amherst College, spanning 5,000 years and encompassing the creative achievements of many world cultures.

Winter Hours

The Mead Art Museum is partially closed for installation until Thursday, January 30, 2020. We are currently operating on our non-academic year schedule:

Monday: CLOSED                                                                                               

Tuesday - Thursday: 9am - 5pm                                                                                           

Friday: 9am - 8pm                                                                                                           

Saturday - Sunday: 9am - 5pm

Portrait of Sacajawea by contemporary artist Matthew Day Jackson

Mead Art Museum receives gift of more than 170 contemporary artworks

Featuring works by David Hockney, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Mark Bradford, and Christian Marclay. Read more about this exciting gift in The Boston Globe!

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On View Now

Liliana Poter, Still Life #1, 1970

Constructing Collage

This exhibition presents some of the ways in which artists have employed collage throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ON VIEW NOW.

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Black & white photograph of the artist Heather Agyepong in a seated kneeling position, she extends her arm as she holds a rose.

Spring Programs Brochure

Download a PDF of the Mead’s spring brochure, which includes information about upcoming exhibitions and events. Printed copies are available in the main lobby of the museum.

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Mead Reimagined opening

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Le travail interrompu (Work Interrupted), 1891.

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