The Mead's non-academic year hours go into effect on Sunday, May 19, 2019. Please see below for our summer hours.
Monday | CLOSED
Tuesday-Thursday | 9am - 5pm
Friday | 9am - 8pm
Saturday - Sunday | 9am - 5pm
The Mead's Study Room will be closed for appointments through Wednesday, July 17, 2019.
This exhibition presents some of the ways in which artists have employed collage throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ON VIEW NOW - July 14, 2019.
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This exhibition explores how and why artists have turned to the genre of landscape painting through the ages. ON VIEW NOW - July 14, 2019.
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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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An ephemeral mural created by printmaker Tatiana Potts and Five College students. ON VIEW NOW.
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Shonibare’s selection of 233 books tells a specific story of how knowledge is organized and disseminated. ON VIEW NOW.
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The Mead’s new art show reveals a lost genre from the 1930s-40s: “Dimensionism,” in which artists responded—wildly—to the era’s game-changing scientific discoveries.
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.
Located in Webster Hall on the campus of Amherst College, the Amherst Center for Russian Culture Art Gallery displays artworks, books and archival materials from the Thomas P. Whitney ’37 collection of Russian art.
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