Spencer Museum of Art

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We are a museum at the University of Kansas with two floors of galleries and a collection that represents different types of art from around the world. Admission is free for everyone!

Colorful painting with dense, cartoon style imagery including sushi, a teapot, a woman’s face, a map of Japan, and objects with Japanese writing

Looking After:

Art and Care in Education Across Kansas

Explore the many ways that art can facilitate learning through more than 80 works from our collection and interactive stations.

Color photograph of various green plants and white and red flowers with a face in the center and multiple hands covered in white lines protruding

Christian Thompson: Future Ancestor

Future Ancestor presents two photographs and one video work by Australian artist Christian Thompson that explore language preservation and cultural survival.

A colorful, comic book style design with the words "Backyard Bash!" in the center and "Smash!" and "Flash!" in red stars

Backyard Bash

Explore art and nature through performances, games, and hands-on activities at this party in our backyard, Marvin Grove, and in the galleries.

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Print of a pink starfish-like creature with a single eye in its center; on the right half the pink surface is missing, revealing its complex organs

Alien Forms / Future Worlds

Explore how artists across time, media, and geography imagine the unknown.

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Events

September 24

Talk

Senior Session: Handwork, Immortality, and Schoolgirl Samplers

10:15–11:00AM

Spencer Museum of Art, Brosseau Learning Center

September 25

Activity

10:00AM–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Goddard Study Center

September 27

Talk

Looking After: Art and Care in Education Across Kansas

1:00–2:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Perkins Central Court

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Browse art highlights

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), A Western Landscape

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)

A Western Landscape

late 1860s or 1870s

Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), Le Parc

Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956)

Le Parc

1915

Miyagawa Kōzan (1842–1916), bowl with chrysanthemums

Miyagawa Kōzan (1842–1916)

bowl with chrysanthemums

late 1800s, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Guiduccio Palmerucci (1280–circa 1349), Madonna and Child between Two Angels, with a Kneeling Donor, His Wife and Child

Guiduccio Palmerucci (1280–circa 1349)

Madonna and Child between Two Angels, with a Kneeling Donor, His Wife and Child

circa 1340s

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