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Hood Museum of Art

Dynamic teaching museum at Dartmouth College with a collection of 74,000+ objects. Admission is always free.

The Hood Museum of Art’s collection is among the oldest and largest of its kind in the United States, totaling more than 65,000 works across a broad spectrum of cultures and historical periods. The collection encompasses important holdings of American, Native American, European, African, and Melanesian art, including a significant collection of indigenous Australian contemporary art and a major ar

chive of photojournalism. Among the collection’s greatest treasures are Assyrian stone reliefs and the fresco mural cycle "The Epic of American Civilization," by José Clemente Orozco.

08/26/2026

The wait is over. 🎉 We are excited to welcome Dr. Kim Conaty to Dartmouth as the next Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood Museum of Art!

Kim comes to the from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. A specialist in modern and contemporary art with a focus on drawings and prints, Kim is currently the Nancy and Steven Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she first served as a curatorial intern and later as the coordinator of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. In 2017, she returned to the Whitney Museum as the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, and in 2024 was named chief curator—one of the most influential curatorial jobs in the contemporary art world.

🔗 Click on the link to read the full story: https://bit.ly/45KZQnB

Keep an eye out for opportunities to meet Kim this fall. 🥳

08/24/2026

She's baaaack 👀

The bronze version of Ursula von Rydingsvard's "Wide Babelki Bowl" is now on view! Find this, and other works of public art, across the Dartmouth campus.

08/14/2026

Something ✨new✨ is up in our entrance gallery!

Last week preparators Matt Oates and Lauri Kobar installed a still life by Spanish artist María Blanchard, guided by paper templates of the fellow Cubist paintings and sculptures that will surround it. This group hang evokes the dense displays of salons, the annual Parisian exhibitions where such artworks were originally viewed.

Visit "Community and Exile: Artists in Paris, 1910–1939," on view through September 11, 2027.

08/07/2026

Every great chapter leads to the next.

Who will be selected as leader to carry the torch? 🔥

08/05/2026

🖌️✨🌷 We’ve been blown away by your creativity with Little Hood @ the Howe art kits!

Drop by Howe Library to pick up the newest art kit, inspired by exhibition “Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean.”

Missed the first round of art kits? There’s still some watercolor supplies left! 🎨

08/03/2026

A love letter to Director John Stomberg. 💌

Since joining as Director in 2016, John has . . .
🖼️ Curated 14 exhibitions (not including group shows)
🏺 Selected +66 works for the ’s collection
🚧 Supported the museum through an expansion, renovation, and reopening
🤩 Overseen +7,980 works added to the collection

Since reopening in 2019, under John’s leadership, the museum has seen . . .
🏛️ +180,000 total visitors
📚 +2,100 Dartmouth classes taught in BCOS
🎓 +31,000 Dartmouth students visiting the museum
🎨 +12,691 local and regional K–12 students in ArtStart and Images programs
🧐 +8,829 local and regional K–12 students on gallery tours

Thank you for over a decade of service, John. We will miss you!

07/30/2026

🧽🫧 Campus Art Spotlight!

Get up close and personal with the 's most accessible collection - ! Whether installed in the galleries or on the lawn across the Dartmouth campus, our registration team works hard to manage and preserve every part of our collection 💪🖼️

Join Associate Registrar Kristie Couser on the museum's blog to learn more about how outdoor sculpture is cared for.

🔗 Click the link to read Kristie's blog post: https://bit.ly/45pKJj0

07/28/2026

✨ A new bronze version of a sculpture is coming back!

Ursula von Rydingsvard’s “Wide Babelki Bowl” will return to Dartmouth’s campus in a new medium when the installs it in August. The bronze edition was created from a cast of the original cedar sculpture and will be placed in front of Rollins Chapel, where the original sculpture stood.

Recently, Hood staff visited the UAP Urban Art Projects foundry to see the two side by side and see the magic behind the scenes. The bronze “Wide Babelki Bowl” will join 13 other public art sculptures across Dartmouth’s campus. Keep an eye out for more Campus Art highlights later this week!

07/17/2026

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Recently, Hood curator Jami Powell attended a talk at Peter Pap Rugs to discuss traditions of Navajo weaving and the influence these textiles had on generations of artists. The conversation was centered around Frank Stella, whose work is on view in the Hood Museum's exhibition, "Always Already: Abstraction in the United States" until 2028.

We're pleased to be a part of these conversations, especially during a time where museums across the country are rethinking the presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art.

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6 East Wheelock Street
Hanover, NH
03755

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+16036462808

Website

http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

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