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University Museum of Contemporary Art

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Established
  
1975 (1975)

Director
  
Loretta Yarlow (2016)

Phone
  
+1 413-545-3670

Location
  
Amherst, Massachusetts

Website
  
Official website

Founded
  
1975

University Museum of Contemporary Art

Address
  
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fine Arts Center, Presidents Dr, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

Similar
  
Fine Arts Center, Hampden Gallery, Mead Art Museum, Historic Deerfield, New Africa House

Profiles

Artists kara walker and caitlin cherry at university museum of contemporary art


The University Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly known as the University Gallery) is a contemporary art museum on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The UMCA has been housed in the university's Fine Arts Center since 1975, after the university began collecting works in 1962. The museum's collection of about 2,600 pieces from the second half of the 20th century includes 154 photographs taken by Andy Warhol. The UMCA is a member of the Five College Museums10.

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University Museum of Contemporary Art Wikipedia