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Media Contact: Rebecca Basu (202-885-5950) basu@american.edu
AU Museum at Home
To ensure our community's safety, we are temporarily closed. We are committed to bringing you #ArtWhereYouAre with exhibition highlights, selections from our permanent collection, and more on our digital platforms. Until we reopen, connect with our Museum@Home on social media and subscribe to our mailing list. Please visit our homepage for updates, and AU's COVID-19 webpage for more information and resources.
Contested Space
These exhibitions are featured in conjunction with our virtual series "Contested Space," highlighting themes relevant to the Fall 2020 presidential election.
Virtual Events
The Long Sixties
AU Museum Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen presents on our forthcoming exhibition "The Long Sixties," featuring Washington paintings from our Watkins and Corcoran Legacy Collections. Rasmussen previewed the exhibition in conjunction with American University's Virtual Family Week.
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Images (top-bottom):
Edward Burtynsky, Rice Terraces #3a, Western Yunnan Province, China, 2012. Digital chromogenic colour print on Kodak Endura Premier paper, 48 x 64 in; framed: 52 3/8 x 68 3/8 in. © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg & Bryce Wolkowitz, New York.
Nancy Van Meter, Barbie Petticoat: Like A Flower Waiting for the Bee, 1999. Cyanotype photogram, sheet: 4 1/4 × 4 in. American University Museum, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of the artist), 2018.15.1887.
The latest
Catch up on our latest news and online content.
A spotlight on our virtual collection exhibition "Art and Authenticity in the Age of Fake News."
Featuring Edward Burtynsky's photographic series Water.
Read our 10-7 update
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Family activities
Get creative with us at home!
Play with scale in this collage activity.
Inspired by Terry Braunstein's Who Is She?
A surreal portrait activity.
Inspired by Elyse Harrison of Communicating Vessels