UCL Art Museum

UCL Art Museum

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UCL Art Museum by UCL Sound

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UCL Art Museum holds over 10,000 prints, drawings, sculptures, paintings and media works dating from the 1490s to the present day. There are many individual works of international significance in the collections, and groups of works are equally important for the study and research of artistic and teaching practices.

Highlights include sculpture and drawings by neoclassical artist John Flaxman, the Grote Collection of 16th-century Northern European drawings, the Vaughan Collection of old master prints, and the acclaimed Slade Collection of award-winning student works.

Selections from our painting and sculpture collections are also on permanent display across UCL.

Highlights include:

The Flaxman Gallery – a unique installation of neoclassical plaster models by John Flaxman, situated on the first floor under UCL’s dome and accessed through the main library entrance.

Marmor Homericum – a site-specific sculptural representation of Homer’s Iliad, commissioned by George Grote in 1865 from the Romantic sculptor Henri-Joseph-François Triqueti and located in the South Cloisters.

UCL Art Museum occupies a traditional Print Room, a multi-purpose space used for teaching, research, archive and display. Funded by Lord Duveen, this was UCL’s first public gallery, opening in 1930 with displays of selected works. The space became the permanent home of UCL’s art collections in 1977. It reopened to the public in 1981 as the Strang Print Room, named after the principal donor to the refurbishment project, Lord Strang. UCL Art Museum received official museum status in 1990.

The museum specialises in object-based learning. Classes across the disciplines at UCL and other universities regularly use the collections. We collaborate on exhibitions, interdisciplinary research

and public engagement projects with fellow scholars at UCL and with external partners. We would love to hear from you if you have ideas or suggestions for projects, or feedback about what we are doing.

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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.