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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 June 2025
Vertical Gallery
Art gallery interior showing an exhibition space with light blue walls and tiled floors. Two benches are centrally placed on the floor. To the left, a large colorful abstract painting is displayed, featuring vibrant reds and oranges with scattered elements of blue and pink. Adjacent to the right is a smaller framed artwork. A wall text titled "A Gathering" is visible on the right side.
A Gathering
Ongoing
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Interior of the LA Raza Art & Medioa Collective with a vibrant, colorful mural on a green wall. Glass doors and windows are reflecting the outside street view. An exhibit display with graphical panels is placed in the foreground.
La Raza Art and Media Collective
1975 – Today
Dec 7, 2024 — July 20, 2025
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Visitors viewing an art exhibition titled 'Strange You Never Knew' by Jarod Lew at a gallery.
Strange You Never Knew
A Solo Exhibition by Jarod Lew
February 1 — June 15, 2025
Taubman I
Post No Bills exhibition, the gallery walls are adorned with descriptive text and several artworks, including abstract and graphic pieces, displayed in a well-lit room with glass display cases.
Post No Bills
March 1 — July 13, 2025
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

Upcoming
Events

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

an illustration of a brown guitar against a yellow background. The guitar is sprouting from the earth like a tree - it has a ladder placed on it and a swing coming from the guitar's neck.
UMMA Family Day: Planting Seeds feat. a Concert with Joe Reilly
Museum of Art
Sat, Mar 8, 2025 11:30am–1:00pm
On the left is a small figure in a white dress. On the right, a large, black military uniform looms.
Film Screening and Discussion: Gulmira’s Fairy Tales by Gluklya
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Tue, Mar 11, 2025 5:30pm–7:00pm
Two hands hold a controller and play a video game on a monitor. In the game a character kicks a Toyota
Book Club — Hosted by the UMMA Student Advisory Board
Living Room
Sun, Mar 16, 2025 12:00pm–1:30pm
Related Exhibition Jarod Lew: Strange You Never Knew
The opening day of the exhibition La Raza showing the custom window artwork with pink, green, and teal colors coming through while two people in silhouette talk in the gallery.
Exhibition Tour: La Raza Art and Media Collective with Curator David Choberka
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Sun, Mar 16, 2025 2:00pm–3:00pm
Related Exhibition La Raza Art and Media Collective 1975 – Today
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Monica Youn
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Thu, Mar 20, 2025 5:30pm–6:30pm
Event Series Zell Visiting Writers Series
Yellow and navy blue 4 point stirs with navy blue microphone silhouette at the center.
Mark Webster Reading Series: Malia Maxwell and Rebecca Hawkes
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Fri, Mar 21, 2025 7:00pm–8:00pm
Event Series Webster Reading Series

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