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About Our Museum

First opened as a natural history museum in 1874, the University Museum at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has evolved into a teaching museum that represents the humanities, the sciences and the arts. While our focus is on southern Illinois, our humanities collection includes ethnographic materials that allow us to share the world with a diverse campus and a region that is isolated from urban centers. With roughly 70,000 objects in our care, the University Museum captures and illuminates the human story, opening a window on who we are and where we came from. 

Hours

FALL 2018 DAYS AND HOURS

Gallery Admission is free and open to the public. 618-453-5388

August 20 - December 15, 2018

Tuesdays–Fridays: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays: 1 to 4 p.m.

Closed: Sundays, Mondays, as well as November 20-24, 2018

Public metered parking available across from the Student Center and beside Woody Hall.

FigureSchedule of Events

North Hall

  • Continuum Gallery - Rick Mallette original artwork designed especially for SIU
  • Mitchell Gallery - Center for Archeological Investigations 40th anniversary
  • Atrium - Papua New Guinea ceramics

South Hall:

  • United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
  • CCC Art Show
  • Carl W. Lutes Gallery - collection of Renaissance and later furniture, tapestries and works of art