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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
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.
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.
Ongoing
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Overview of the entire Crumpacker Gallery, two floors filled with works of art apart of the Curriculum Collection
Ongoing
Jan and David Brandon Family Bridge
View of a gallery installation. Black walls with gold and silver text tell the story of the Burt Lake Band of Anishinaabe Native Americans
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.
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.
1975 – Today
Dec 7, 2024 — July 20, 2025
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Strange You Never Knew exhibition space inside the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery, featuring a vintage television, wallpaper, and photography.
A Solo Exhibition by Jarod Lew
February 1 — June 15, 2025
Taubman I

Upcoming
Events

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

Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Jane Wong
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Thu, Feb 20, 2025 5:30pm–6:30pm
Yellow and navy blue 4 point stirs with navy blue microphone silhouette at the center.
Webster MFA Reading Series: Nora Sullivan and Caroline Porter
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Fri, Feb 21, 2025 7:00pm–8:00pm
Interior of an art gallery displaying various photographs on the walls, with a bench centered in the foreground for viewers.
Exhibition Tour — Jarod Lew: Strange You Never Knew with Curator Jennifer Friess
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I
Sun, Feb 23, 2025 2:00pm–3:00pm
This mixed media painting has a graffiti aesthetic. There are a series of portraits, one large in spray paint in the center of the work and a number of smaller ones in collaged newspaper. Throughout the composition are stenciled phrases in black and red paint as well as inscribed phrases in pen and various colored paints. There are also a number collaged pieces of newspaper. The work is signed and dated (l.r.) "B Dogancay / 2009" in yellow paint.
Exhibition Tour: Post No Bills with UMMA Curator Ashley Miller
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery
Sun, Mar 2, 2025 2:00pm–3:00pm
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

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