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At UMMA, students from The University of Michigan and beyond can find opportunities to make an impact. Help UMMA lead change, find your next obsession, or simply discover your new favorite study spot in the UMMA Cafe!
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Enhance your lessons with unique and unexpected connections to art. Make the UMMA experience part of your curriculum with in-person or virtual tours, custom course resources, and more.
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The future of art lives at UMMA. We welcome K–12 students and educators with customized field trip opportunities, class resources, and teacher development information.
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Everyone is welcome to Feel Free at UMMA. Check out our community resources to see virtual tours, family resources, and everything you need to make the most of your next visit.
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Current
Exhibitions

Exhibitions are featured for a limited time, but the experience will stay with you. Visit us to keep learning.

A line of people walk toward a museum entrance, and a large sculpture of a white head stands tall next to them.
Jaume Plensa
Ongoing
UMMA Exterior
Groups of people stand and walk through a light green room with dark wooden vitrines and gilded framed paintings on the wall in the Unsettling Histories exhibition.
Ongoing
European and American Decorative Art
A celebration of UMMA's fall season with exhibition openings of You're Welcome, Hear Me Now, and A Gathering.
Ongoing
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Ongoing
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery
View of a gallery installation. Black walls with gold and silver text tell the story of the Burt Lake Band of Anishinaabe Native Americans
Andrea Carlson
Now thru June 2025
Vertical Gallery
Highly decorated gold frame, broken on the top edge and fractured on the bottom edge. A large piece of gold and red fabric with a gold fringe is covered with numerous multi-covered shirts, tunics, or other similar garments sewn across the front, giving a quilted appearance.
Ongoing
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Machine Dazzle
March 14 — August 25, 2024
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery

Upcoming
Events

What’s next? There’s always something happening at UMMA.

a yellow book cover that reads "Ma and Me" written by Putsata Reang. The cover is stylized like a block print, showing a red lion and a black alligator
Reading and Discussion with Author Putsata Reang — Stories Hold the Cure
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Mon, Apr 22, 2024 6:00pm–7:30pm
Study Days Open Mic Night
UMMA Cafe
Fri, Apr 26, 2024 6:00pm–7:00pm
Study Days – Sound & Silence with Canterbury House
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Fri, Apr 26, 2024 6:45pm–9:00pm
Study Days – Zine Workshop with WCBN-FM
Forum
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 12:00pm–2:00pm
Study Days – Jewelry Making Workshop
Forum
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 2:00pm–4:00pm
Artist Meet & Greet – Machine Dazzle
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm

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Highlights

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