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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
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
Students and community members in special exhibition 'Silver Linings' at the annual Artscapade! in August 2024.
August 24, 2024 — January 5, 2025
Taubman I
Students and community members in special exhibition 'Hey We Need to Talk!' at the annual Artscapade! in August 2024.
Aug 31, 2024 — Feb 09, 2025
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

Upcoming
Events

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

Students and community members in special exhibition 'Silver Linings' at the annual Artscapade! in August 2024.
Exhibition Tour — Silver Linings with guest curator julia elizabeth neal
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I
Sun, Nov 10, 2024 2:00pm–3:00pm
Trans Awareness Month Keynote Lecture by Quortne Hutchings
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 6:30pm–8:00pm
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with ​Sawako Nakayasu
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 5:30pm–6:30pm
Hey, We Need to Talk!: Interfaith Round Table
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 12:00pm–1:30pm
Performance in the Apse at UMMA's Feel Good Friday Fry Bread event.
Feel Good Friday: Feel Good Frybread
Whole Museum
Fri, Nov 15, 2024 7:00pm–10:00pm
A Cloud Over the Land: Book Talk + Tour of Andrea Carlson Future Cache
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Sun, Nov 24, 2024 2:00pm–3:00pm

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