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
![Haring exhibition image](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/Website%20exhibition%20image.jpg?h=9550b3ad&itok=qo8du51e)
To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City
Inaugurated on Keith Haring’s (1958–1990) birthday, this exhibition celebrates the revolutionary graffiti artist's ties to Iowa City. It also honors the many individuals who shaped his visits to Iowa City during the 1980s. The 1989 mural Haring painted for Ernest Horn Elementary School, which is on loan to the Stanley Museum of Art during the school’s renovation, anchors the exhibition and is accompanied by other works of art, photographs, and archival ephemera.
![Print "Copyist at the Metropolitan" by John Sloan](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-02/378l.2023_rectocrop.jpg?h=d106097a&itok=FfRUzrWo)
A Year in Print
This exhibition will feature Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists, a portfolio recently gifted to the Stanley by collectors Alan and Ann January.
![Text reading "Coming Home Coming Home" side by side with the left part of a large abstract painting with swirls of yellow, pink, teal, and light greenish blue, amid longer, vertical, curved black lines that have a quality of dance-like movement.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2022-07/Untitled-1.jpg?h=e17363ce&itok=xP6kf51Y)
Homecoming
The Stanley's inaugural exhibition, Homecoming, reintroduces visitors to the museum's extraordinary collection. Homecoming comprises a series of related installations: “Generations,” which will foreground the University of Iowa’s history of innovative arts education and scholarship; “Fragments of the Canon,” featuring African art collected by a Black Iowan, Meredith Saunders; and “History Is Always Now,” in which the Stanley’s celebrated collection of African art will be displayed in a new way that emphasizes movement and cultural exchange through time and across space.
![Aerial view of museum with campus recreation center on left and Main Library on right](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-01/340-BNIM-SMA-Edit01.00_04_27_21.Still006_tif%20copy.jpg?h=721064c1&itok=ZpoEhxEN)
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.
Student News
A Reflection from Summer Learning & Engagement Intern Bella Epstein
![A photo of Stanley student employee, Shaun Mallonga, working on Jiha Moon's mural, 'One An Other,' in the Stanley Museum of Art lobby.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-08/2024_07_15-Stanley%20Mural-tschoon-043.jpg?h=c3635fa2&itok=yuuzj8GL)
A Reflection on Working with Jiha Moon
![Student employees Sarena Gibson and Mari Johnson crouch on the street in downtown Iowa City, where they are working on a large chalk drawing as part of the city's Rock the Chalk summer festival.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-08/455257106_1081771977078327_6664636322982740689_n.jpg?h=70491a58&itok=BoHxrorR)
Stanley Museum of Art Student Employees at Rock the Chalk 2024
Press Coverage
![Students posing in front of Keith Haring’s mural in progress at Ernest Horn Elementary School](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-12/Picture3.jpg?h=8cf59e5a&itok=5nRQD33v)
A Mural Keith Haring Painted in an Elementary School Gets a Rare Showing
![A person viewing framed art in a gallery](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/IMG_4639.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=kYAkfr3v)