The Allen Memorial Art Museum has an outstanding collection of more than 12,000 objects – including paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings and photographs – that provide a comprehensive overview of the history of art from a variety of cultures.  The collection is particularly strong in European and American paintings and sculpture from the 15th century to today, and has important holdings of Asian paintings, scrolls, sculpture and decorative art, including a large group of ukiyo-e prints.  High-quality African, Pre-Columbian, and ancient art is also represented.  The museum also houses the Eva Hesse archives, which includes the artist’s notebooks, diaries, photographs and letters, and is proud to oversee, along with the Art Department, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Weltzheimer/Johnson House.

The museum is currently upgrading its collections management system with the help of a major federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.  Our new system, once installed, will be fully searchable on-line, providing full information on, and images of, all the objects in our collection.  Watch for these exciting new developments in the future.