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We are a museum at the University of Kansas with two floors of galleries and a collection that represents different types of art from around the world. Admission is free for everyone!

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Autumn landscape with large trees covered in orange and yellow leaveson the bank of a river where a figure sits fishing

November Holiday Hours

We will be closed November 11 for Veterans Day and November 25-26 for Thanksgiving .

A white, flowering plant with seeds spilling out appears against a blue background resembling rippling water with small, swimming figures scattered throughout

Asclepias in the Garden

This exhibition at the KU Medical Center was developed by artist Marguerite Perret as part of the Kansas 4M/KU Spencer Museum of Art Arts Research Integration Fellowship.

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Free Digital Guide

Explore the Spencer with our free digital guide available through Bloomberg Connects. Access tours and audio and video content.

Color photograph of various green plants and white and red flowers with a face in the center and multiple hands covered in white lines protruding

Christian Thompson: Future Ancestor

Experience two photographs and one video work by Australian artist Christian Thompson that explore language preservation and cultural survival.

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Events

November 8
Performance
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Perkins Central Court
November 9
Talk
7:00–8:30PM
Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St
November 11
Activity
Spencer Museum of Art

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Browse art highlights

Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860); Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)
1812
Jan Both (circa 1618–1652)
circa 1638–1640
Gustave Marissiaux (1872–1929)
1908
Rosa Andreu (1800s)
1846

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