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

Portraiture and Archives in African Photography

Maam Njaré: Goddess of Water

Dis/Comfort: Confronting Histories of African Art in the United States

Richard Diebenkorn in a New Light

Upcoming Events

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2026 Downtown Fall Gallery Walk

Friday, October 2, 2026 5:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Join the Stanley Museum of Art, the UI Libraries, and the UI Museum of Natural History for the Iowa City Downtown District's ​Fall Gallery Walk! This annual free event invites everyone to take a self-guided tour of shops and galleries showcasing local art and exhibitions in downtown Iowa City. You don't want to miss these three premier campus destinations:

Stanley Museum of Art: To kick-off the Downtown Gallery Walk, the Stanley will launch the latest iteration of its Thresholds: Poetry series...

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Art & Write Night

Friday, October 2, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.

Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.

Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

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Night at the Museum: Spooky Crafts

Thursday, October 8, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us for our next installment of Night at the Museum—a series of monthly events for students that occur Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. 

This month we're hosting different spooky crafts centered around Halloween, complete with snacks. Join us to make scary monsters out of air-dry clay, color Halloween-themed coloring sheets, make fall mood boards, decorate masks, or explore a fall scavenger hunt in our galleries! 

Bring your friends to get into the Halloween spirit!

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Student News

Entrance wall for the Stanley Museum's Dis/Comfort exhibition, with the title in large black letters split by a red slash, bilingual introductory text on an orange background, a Makonde mask displayed in a wall case, and a visitor walking past.

Student Reflections on Curating Dis/Comfort

Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Alicia poses, pictured from the waist up, on an outdoor terrace with a campus building and greenery behind her; she is smiling, wearing a white t-shirt under a denim tie-front vest.

Communications and Marketing Assistant 2026/2027: Alicia Maiz Alonso

Thursday, September 3, 2026