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At UMMA, students from The University of Michigan and beyond can find opportunities to make an impact. Help UMMA lead change, find your next obsession, or simply discover your new favorite study spot in the UMMA Cafe!
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Enhance your lessons with unique and unexpected connections to art. Make the UMMA experience part of your curriculum with in-person or virtual tours, custom course resources, and more.
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The future of art lives at UMMA. We welcome K–12 students and educators with customized field trip opportunities, class resources, and teacher development information.
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Everyone is welcome to Feel Free at UMMA. Check out our community resources to see virtual tours, family resources, and everything you need to make the most of your next visit.
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Current
Exhibitions

Exhibitions are featured for a limited time, but the experience will stay with you. Visit us to keep learning.

A line of people walk toward a museum entrance, and a large sculpture of a white head stands tall next to them.
Jaume Plensa: Behind the Walls
Jaume Plensa
Ongoing
UMMA Exterior
Groups of people stand and walk through a light green room with dark wooden vitrines and gilded framed paintings on the wall in the Unsettling Histories exhibition.
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
Ongoing
European and American Decorative Art
A celebration of UMMA's fall season with exhibition openings of You're Welcome, Hear Me Now, and A Gathering.
We Write To You About Africa
Ongoing
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
View of a gallery installation. Black walls with gold and silver text tell the story of the Burt Lake Band of Anishinaabe Native Americans
Future Cache
Andrea Carlson
Now thru November 2025
Vertical Gallery
Person viewing abstract art pieces on display in a gallery, with one artwork prominently featuring red and black colors.
A Gathering
Ongoing
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Two individuals viewing various artworks in a gallery room, including framed pieces on the wall and a sculpture displayed on a pedestal.
Curriculum / Collection 
New installation August 2, 2025
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery
Interior of a room with pastel blue walls featuring three framed digital displays on white tables, each depicting individuals in colorful attire. The room is furnished with modern, multicolored chairs arranged around the tables.
Zina Saro-Wiwa: Table Manners
Season 1
August 9, 2025 — January 4, 2026
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Installation view of a geometric abstract art exhibit featuring red and white panels arranged in a dynamic composition, displayed in a modern gallery setting.
Both Sides of the Line
Carmen Herrera & Leon Polk Smith
August 30, 2025 — January 4, 2026
Taubman I Gallery
University students visit UMMA on September 25, 2025, joining tours led by David Choberka, Madeline October Wildman, and Julia Laplaca. A study room session was also led by LSA Professor Lisa Makman.
Come Talk To Me
September 2025 — Spring 2026
Jan and David Brandon Family Bridge

Upcoming
Events

What’s next? There’s always something happening at UMMA.

Webster MFA Reading Series: Desireé Dallagiacomo and Sean Cavanaugh
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Fri, Oct 3, 2025 7:00pm–8:00pm
Event Series Webster Reading Series
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Poet Roger Reeves
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Thu, Oct 16, 2025 5:30pm–7:00pm
Event Series Zell Visiting Writers Series
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series: Mario Moore
Historic Theater
Thu, Oct 16, 2025 5:30pm–7:30pm
Event Series Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Art installation featuring a large, transparent panel with a monochrome photograph at an art gallery, surrounded by various abstract paintings.
Exhibition Tour | Both Sides of the Line: Carmen Herrera & Leon Polk Smith
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I
Sun, Oct 19, 2025 2:00pm–3:00pm
Related Exhibition Both Sides of the Line
painting snippet of figure in the right hand corner hands praying in left corner and feet floating at the top middle.
Museum Director Talk with Christina Olsen, “Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century?”
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Thu, Oct 23, 2025 5:30pm–7:00pm
A performer on stage during UMMA's Feel Good Friday Queer Night in February 2025.
Feel Good Friday: Queer Night Halloween Edition
Museum of Art
Fri, Oct 24, 2025 7:00pm–10:00pm
Event Series Feel Good Friday

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