Stanley Museum of Art

Jackson Pollock's Mural

Detail photo by Dave Drogos

See yourself at the Stanley

Come explore our beautiful home - a campus and community hub of global visual culture.

Everyone is welcome.

Plan Your Visit Explore the Collections

east front of museum with sky reflected in the glass

Visit

Our beautiful building is a cultural and social center where you can explore, unwind, meet, and create. Everyone is welcome.

Two students thoughtfully viewing artwork

Explore

Spark your curiosity with something new or stop by and see your old favorites.

A group of three university students look at a large African mask

Discover

The world-class art collection provides exciting opportunities for teaching, learning, and research.

Two women sitting on a green couch having a conversation

Connect

There’s always something exciting going on at your art museum. Find out what’s coming up on the calendar.

Gallery Hours

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 12:00–4:30 p.m.

Admission to the museum building will end 5 minutes before gallery closing.

Office Hours

Monday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed

Current Exhibitions

Swirls of paint in different colors on a canvas

Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943. Oil and casein on canvas, 242.9 x 603.9 cm. University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6 © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Homecoming

August 26, 2022–July 2025

The Stanley's inaugural exhibition reintroduces visitors to the museum's extraordinary collection. Homecoming comprises of a series of related installations: Generations, Fragments of the Canon, and History Is Always Now.

Homecoming

Print of a group of people standing by a window looking out. A prominent male figure stands in the foreground, accompanied by a woman, casually glancing at the crowd.

John Sloan, Copyist at the Metropolitan, 1908, etching, 7.3 x 8.8 in. (18.5 x 22.4 cm). Stanley Museum of Art, gift of Alan and Ann January.

A Year in Print

March 1, 2024 - December 2024

Featuring Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists, a portfolio recently gifted to the Stanley by collectors Alan and Ann January.

A Year in Print

A large white mural filled with colorful drawings, mounted on a concrete wall held together by a metal base

Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990), A Book Full of Fun, 1989, acrylic on plywood, 71 x 107 x 1 ¾ in. Photo by Brendan Paul. Loan of Horn Elementary, Iowa City Community School District © Keith Haring Foundation

To my Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City

May 4, 2024 - January 7, 2025

This exhibition celebrates revolutionary graffiti artist Keith Haring's ties to Iowa City.

To my Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City

A series of masks on display in a gallery with purple walls

Sowei masks for Sande Society

Part of exhibition, Alternate Paths: New Object Histories from Africa to America, at the Stanley Museum of Art, 2024. Photo by Adrian Carmenate.

Alternate Paths

August 2, 2024 - February 23, 2025

Alternate Paths: New Object Histories from Africa to America explores artistic agency as well as ethical and material dimensions of African art collections from the University of Iowa and Indiana University.

Alternate Paths

Aerial view of museum with campus recreation center on left and Main Library on right

The Building

Nestled between the Main Library and Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on the west side of Gibson Square Park, the new Stanley Museum of Art is a hub of learning and research for the University of Iowa and the state. The three-story, state-of-the-art building, designed by BNIM of Des Moines, Iowa, includes a range of flexible spaces for research, education, and exhibitions, and is ideally suited to serve as a center for interdisciplinary teaching, discovery, and community building.

Upcoming Events

Drawing Salon with Robert Caputo

Sunday, October 20, 2024 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Stanley Museum of Art

The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use...

Using Our Archives | Lecture by Melanie Landsittel

Friday, October 25, 2024 11:00am to 12:30pm

Stanley Museum of Art

Using Our Archives for Artist Research; A practical guide to Museum and Special Collections archives in research-creation practices. Join us for an informative lecture and workshop with Melanie Landsittel, Graduate Assistant at the Stanley Museum of Art, on Friday, 10/25, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Visual Classroom on the 3rd floor. Melanie will do a deep-dive into “Research-Creation” as it has applied to artists in Canada requesting government funding for their scholarship, explaining...

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, October 27, 2024 2:30pm to 4:15pm

Stanley Museum of Art

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Fall Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen...

View more events