Brigham Young University Museum of Art

The Museum of Art is a place where the heart and mind are brought together to seek knowledge and values, self affirmation and spiritual understanding. We hope your experience in the Museum will nurture a more reflective mind, a capacity for deeper inquiry, a stronger commitment to excellence and integrity, and heightened appreciation for others and their ideas.

Admission to the Museum of Art is free

August 14, 2009 – October 24, 2009



This exhibition showcases 60 extraordinary paintings illustrating some of the highest achievements in figurative and landscape art of the nineteenth century.  Acquired by Thomas Holloway to enhance the women’s college he had founded in 1879, the collection includes many of the most visible and praised “modern canvasses” in London in the 1880s.  From scenes of contemporary life, as well as historical events, to landscapes, animal studies, and marine subjects, the exhibition illustrates the Victorian belief in art as the ultimate civilizing influence.

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September 18, 2009 - March 13, 2010



Using the structures of metaphor and analogy from the language of the scriptures, this exhibition of traditional and contemporary works will enlighten the hearts and the minds of our viewers as they participate in the process of seeking out and unraveling the types and shadows contained in these works that “point to” the Savior’s divine mission.  

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February 24, 2006 - 2011



"American Dreams: Selected Works from the Museum's Permanent Collection of American Art" examines artworks created by 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American artists as ideas or visions of America. This exhibition of the Museum's permanent American art collection is presented on both levels of the Museum and includes prints, sculpture, photography, and painting.

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Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self (October 23, 2009 – May 8, 2010): With the advent of social networking sites, cell phones, and YouTube, how we portray ourselves is always transforming. This exhibition will explore how we shape our identities in an expanding global society, and how living artists create artworks in an effort to discover who we are.

The First 100 Years: Collecting Art at BYU (December 4, 2009 – September 25, 2010): One hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculpture representing some of the key works from the BYU Museum of Art will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the university’s art collection. The exhibition, divided into four sections and organized chronologically according to the acquisition of art works into the collection, tells a fascinating story of the building of a collection.

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