The Nasher Museum of Art

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University opened in 2005 with a building designed by Rafael Viñoly as the center for the visual arts on campus. The museum promotes engagement with the visual arts among a broad community including Duke students, faculty, and staff, the greater Durham community, the Triangle region, and the national and international art community. The museum presents an ambitious schedule of exhibitions that travel to major institutions around the world, and has a growing collection of international contemporary art. The Nasher Museum has received more than 80,000 visits from students since it opened. Also in that time, the museum’s community education programs have served more than 32,000 K-12 students.

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University promotes engagement with the visual arts among a broad community including Duke students, faculty, and staff, the greater Durham community, the Triangle region, and the national and international art community. The museum is dedicated to an innovative approach, and presents collections, exhibitions, publications, and programs that attain the highest level of artistic excellence, stimulate intellectual discourse, enrich individual lives, and generate new knowledge in the service of society. Drawing on the resources of a leading research university, the museum serves as a laboratory for interdisciplinary approaches to embracing and understanding the visual arts.

© Brad Feinknopf Photography

Download the Nasher 2011 Annual Report — just click on the cover image to the right.
(29 pages, PDF format - 3.9M)

COVER: Duke students engage with California artist Sean Duffy's sculpture Burn Out Sun, a buckyball made of 20 vinyl records. Photo by Dr. J Caldwell.

Archives:
Download the Nasher Museum's
2010 Annual Report
(44 pages, PDF format - 3.8M)

Download the Nasher Museum's
2009 Annual Report
(50 pages, PDF format - 2.5M)

Monday - closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday - 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (Free to all on Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m.)
Sunday - Noon to 5 p.m.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University, and the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art.