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.

Exhibitions

Bullet Piercing an Apple

Timing Is Everything

Drawn entirely from the Mead’s permanent collection, this exhibition presents artworks across centuries, continents and media that visualize concepts of time. ON VIEW NOW.

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Barbara Hepworth, Project for Wood and Strings, Trezion II, 1959.

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein

A groundbreaking exhibit that explores how modern art was influenced by advances in science, from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses. OPENING MARCH 28.

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Untitled abstract painting by Leon Polk Smith in yellow and green

Fall Events Brochure

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

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Yinka Shonibare, The American Collection (Activists)

New Acquisition

The Mead has acquired The American Library Collection (Activists), a large-scale installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE. It will be on view at the museum October 30, 2018, through February 17, 2019.

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Russian Center Art Gallery

Russian center Art Gallery
The Russian Center Art Gallery is located in the Amherst Center for Russian Culture, on the 2nd floor of Webster Hall.

Open Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

The Mead and the Amherst Center for Russian Culture collaboratively display artworks, books and archival materials from the Thomas P. Whitney ’37 collection of Russian art in the Russian Center Art Gallery.

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Mead Reimagined opening

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

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