Welcome to the University Museums
The University Museums seeks to enhance the educational and scholarly mission of the University of Delaware through the exhibition, online presentation, study, preservation and growth of its unique collections in 20th and 21st century American art (with particular strengths in the Brandywine School, African American art, and photography), minerals and pre-Columbian ceramics. To learn more about the museum and our mission please click here.
All University Museums close for the end of term break after Sunday, May 12, 2013.
Old College Main Gallery will reopen on May 29 – June 28 with summer hours (Wed-Sat 12:00-4:00 pm). The Mineralogical Museum will be open by appointment only during the summer.
MUSEUM
INFORMATION
30 North College Ave.
Newark, DE 19716
Hours:
Wed-Sun 12:00-5:00 pm
Thur - 12:00-8:00 pm
Closed during University breaks and holidays
Parking:
Parking for the Mechanical Hall Gallery is in Trabant University Center Garage located between Delaware Avenue and Main St.
Phone:
302-831-8037 or
302-831-8088
universitymuseums@udel.edu
255 Academy St.
Newark, DE 19716
Hours:
Wed-Sun 12:00-5:00 pm
Thur - 12:00-8:00 pm
Closed during University breaks and holidays
Parking:
Parking for the Mineralogical Museum is in Perkins Garage located on Academy Street.
Phone:
302-831-6557 (Curator)
302-831-8037 (Information)
302-831-4940 (Museum)
universitymuseums@udel.edu
18 East Main St.
Newark, DE 19716
Hours:
Wed-Sun 12:00-5:00 pm
Thur - 12:00-8:00 pm
Closed during University breaks and holidays
Parking:
Parking for the Old College Gallery is in Trabant University Center Garage located between Delaware Avenue and Main St.
Phone:
302-831-8037
302-831-6589
universitymuseums@udel.edu
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OLD COLLEGE GALLERY
Gertrude Käsebier: The Complexity of Light and Shade
Curated by Stephen Petersen, this exhibition features some of Käsebier’s critically acclaimed work, including her expressive studies of mothers and children, portraits of early 20th century artists, as well as family photographs and landscapes. Käsebier’s mercurial rise to prominence, her innovative techniques, and her professional renown are showcased in this exhibition of works from the University Collection.
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Prom Dress, 1958.
Cotton velvet and nylon tulle
Made in the United States
Worn by donor Frances W. Mayhew, née Frances Whitaker, a University of Delaware alumna
Photographers: Kathy F. Atkinson and Evan Krape/UD Photographic Services
Common Threads: A History of Fashion through a Woman’s Eyes
This exhibition chronicles 20th century women’s fashion and explores the meaning of fashion in art and social and historical contexts. The exhibition will showcase the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection of the Fashion and Apparel Studies Department, and is curated by Vicki Cassman, Belinda Orzada, and Dilia López-Gydosh with the support of Janet Broske of University Museums.
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© Fatimah Tuggar, BintaZarah Studios
Fatimah Tuggar: In/Visible Seams
Artist Fatimah Tuggar’s ink-jet on vinyl prints fashion alternate vistas through processes that include photography, image capture, cut and paste, superimposition, and digital manipulation. Working with methods she describes as montage, collage and assemblage, her images, videos and objects offer distinct combinations of wit and irony, compassion and critique. Sourcing a global range of imagery, often from Nigeria and the United States, and mining archival as well as contemporary media, Tuggar’s fusion images and videos are not fictions per se but rather surreal combines of diverse realities, both made starker by their juxtaposition.
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Colorado Rhodochrosites
From the Collection of Dave Bunk
Among the hundreds of gold and silver mines that operated in Colorado from the 1870’s to the present are many that also produced vivid red-pink rhodochrosite specimens. Although the Sweet Home Mine in Park County, Colorado is best known for the rhodochrosite specimens mined during the 1990’s, many other Colorado mines have produced aesthetic examples of this manganese carbonate mineral.
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