legacy of exhibitions, cultural education, and community outreach

Legacy of Exhibitions, Cultural Education, and Community Outreach

About the museumOne of the largest and best-attended

art museums in the Mountain West, the BYU Museum of Art offers a

dynamic exhibition schedule that includes displays of its permanent

collection, world-class traveling shows and thought-provoking

exhibitions organized by museum curators.

About the museumOne of the museum's most important

roles is its contribution to the academic mission of Brigham Young

University.

From the research and study of the artworks in the permanent collection,

to the teaching and learning that occurs in classrooms and galleries,

the museum plays an important role in the academic pursuits of many

students at BYU.

About the museumAt the same time, the museum connects to broad community

audiences through its exhibitions and educational programming.

About the museumThe Brigham Young University Museum of Art is a four-story,

modern facility of more than 102,000 square feet in size.

The museum houses ten exhibition galleries, an auditorium, classrooms, a small theater, a print study room, a

gift store, and security and administrative offices.

AttendanceAnnual Attendance:

28th in the Nation.Ranking places the MOA ahead of

the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of

Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Annual Attendance for University Art Museums:

1st among Universities.

Lighting

Flexible lighting system with variable dimmers

Temperature & Humidity

Centralized 24-hour temperature, humidity &

filtered air control systems

Year-round 70-72 degrees with 35% humidity

(42-45% for special works and exhibitions)

Security

CCTV intrusion alarms, comprehensive

internal & external surveillance video cameras

with continual record

No. of Galleries

14

Total exhibition space = 27,000 sq. ft.

Education Facilities

Auditorium – seats 170

Electronic Classroom – seats 35

Orientation Theatre – seats 35

Teaching Studio

Study Gallery

Library

Secure Print Study Room

Docent Meeting Room

MUSEUM INFO

Features Features, cont.

Fire

Central fire sprinklers, Autocall fire

alarm/smoke detection system

Receiving & Handling

Receiving room, 2 secured holding vaults,

exhibition staging room, isolation room

Covered receiving dock with hydraulic

leveling system

Matting & Framing

Permanent professional on-site framers

MUSEUM INFO

Facilities Facilities, cont.

MUSEUM DESIGNThe Museum of Art was designed by Los Angeles architect James Langenheim. Former

directors of lighting and design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LeMar Terry and Stuart

Silver, assisted in determining the sophisticated lighting requirements and the best functional

use of space.

Prominent personnel from such associations as the Smithsonian Institution,

the Getty Museum, and the National Gallery of Art also contributed to the design and

planning of the building. The objective of these designers was to construct an art museum

that not only exhibited art but was itself a work of art. The building's articulated triangular

shape provides a constant change in size, direction, form and light.

Museum Map

GALLERIES

Ernst F. Lied, Ernst M. & Ida K. Lied Gallery

GALLERIES

Marian Adelaide Morris Cannon Gallery and

Conway A. Ashton & Carl E. Jackman Gallery

GALLERIES

Marian Adelaide Morris Cannon Gallery

GALLERIES

Arline Harman Gallery

GAlleries

Paul & Betty Boshard Gallery and Warren & Alice Jones Gallery

GaLleries

Conway A. Ashton & Carl E. Jackman Gallery

Museum PhilosophyThe Museum of Art is a place

where the heart and mind are brought together to seek

knowledge and values, self affirmation and spiritual

understanding.

We hope your experience in the Museum will nurture a more

reflective mind, a capacity for deeper inquiry, a stronger

commitment to excellence and integrity, and heightened

appreciation for others andtheir ideas.

MUSEUM FEATURES

Sculpture Garden Museum Auditorium

Museum Features

Exhibition Fabrication Registration

OTHER FEATURES

Design Library

Museum Features

Museum Store Student Work Room

OTHER FEATURES

Administrative Offices Cafe

Museum FeatureS

K-Room Security

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

Evening for Educators Family Programs

PERMANENT COLLECTIONSThe Museum of Art's permanent collection of more than 17,000 objects has a special emphasis on American art from the late 18th century to the present, including painting, photography, prints and sculpture. The Museum secures large holdings of Hudson River School landscape paintings and

works of American impressionism.

The Museum's collection has particularly large holdings of works by J. Alden Weir, Mahonri Young, Maynard Dixon, and Minerva Teichert. The Museum's growing religious collection includes

painting and prints by artists such as Carl Bloch and Rembrandt. Many of these items can be viewed online.

moa.byu.edu

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Maynard DixonSanford Robinson Gifford

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Frederick Edwin Church Kitagawa Tamara

Permanent Collections

Daniel Ridgway Knight John Singer Sargent

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

J. Alden Weir Minerva Teichert

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Richard Misrack Reuben Nakian

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Rembrandt Bloch

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Brower Hatcher Albert Paley