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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!

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Soundings: Making Culture at Sea

Explore our new virtual exhibition about art and the ocean.

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Free Digital Guide

Explore the Spencer with our free digital guide available through Bloomberg Connects. Access tours and audio and video content.

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Christian Thompson: Future Ancestor

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

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Events

October 13
Talk
3:30–4:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Lee Study Center
October 13
Talk
6:00–8:00PM
Haskell Indian Nations University

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Browse art highlights

Jerry Norman Uelsmann (1934–2022)
1967
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898)
1885
Iwamura Sadao (1912–1944)
1936

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