Ackland Art Museum

Intersection of S. Columbia and E. Franklin Streets
UNC-Chapel Hill
(919) 966-5736
www.ackland.org

Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Ackland Art Museum on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus is one of the leading public university art museums in the country. The Museum’s collection includes more than 15,000 works of art, featuring North Carolina’s premier collections of Asian art as well as works of art on paper (drawings, prints, and photographs), European masterworks, 20th century and contemporary art, African art, and North Carolina pottery. The Ackland features more than a dozen special exhibitions every year, from contemporary American photography to European master paintings to video installations. An integral part of academic and social life on campus and the surrounding community, the Ackland remains a vibrant source of inspiration to our state and the entire region.

2 Responses to “Ackland Art Museum”

1. Michael McCue says:

   May 8, 2012 at 10:16 am

   Seems like whomever wrote this thinks that our state’s visual arts exhibition history began with Black Mountain College. What about the public shows in the Tryon artists colony, much earlier? What about the early art exhibitions in Asheville? The art shows at colleges such as at Greensboro?

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2. Michael McCue says:

   May 8, 2012 at 10:19 am

   /Sorry, my comment just submitted is in response to not the article about the Ackland, but about the Web page,, which doesn’t solicit comments.

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