Welcome

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!

Happening at the museum

Colorful painting with dense, cartoonish 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.

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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.

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

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 2
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Goddard Study Center
October 2
Activity
1:00–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Goddard Study Center
October 4
Tour
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Loo Gallery

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Browse art highlights

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946)
1907
Harvey Dinnerstein (1928–2022)
2009
Orazio Fontana (circa 1510–1571)
mid 1500s
Mimi Smith (born 1942)
1966

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