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UCL Art Museum

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We are delighted to announce that UCL Art Collections has been renamed UCL Art Museum. We have been a registered museum since 1990 and received full accreditation from the MLA in 2009. Our research has shown that UCL Art Museum better reflects to our visitors who we are and what we do. The change will take effect from the 1 October 2011. The process of updating our materials will take place over the coming academic year. If you have any queries about this change please contact us at college.art@ucl.ac.uk.

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UCL Art Museum by UCL Sound

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UCL Art Museum is an experimental space for interdisciplinary interrogation of the image. Located at the heart of UCL’s main Bloomsbury campus in a traditional print room, UCL Art Museum is uniquely positioned to support interdisciplinary research and share this with a broad audience. Teaching and research with works from our vast and varied collections is at the core of what we do, complemented by a programme of temporary exhibitions and events. This is reflected in the organisation of our multipurpose museum space.

With over sixty classes per year teaching with our collections of prints and drawings, UCL Art Museum is a leader in object based learning serving UCL and the wider Higher Education community. Our exhibitions programme is built around collaborations – with researchers from other disciplines, contemporary artists, other museums and university art collections. Each collaboration explores the intersections between making, teaching and collecting art and the broader socio-political context of these cultural practices.

Our collections consist of many unique groups of material of international importance dating from the 1490s to the present day. A selection of these are on permanent display in the public and semi-public rooms in the college, including paintings, sculptures and murals. Works in our reserve collections are available for viewing by appointment by researchers. These include prize-winning student work from the Slade School of Fine Art, prints and drawings by old master artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Turner and Constable, and sculpture models by the renowned Neo-Classical artist John Flaxman – the largest group of works by this sculptor in any collection.

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News: 

Pop-Up Exhibitions at UCL Art Museum return. Check out our new programme. What would happen if you gave someone free rein to select and share their favourite artworks from the collections? Read more here to find out.

Explore our paintings on the newly launched Your Paintings website. This is a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation and participating collections and museums across the UK. The website aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings and the stories behind them.