University of Arizona Museum of Art

The University of Arizona's Museum of Art is a wonderful academic art museum in downtown Tucson. A colleague and I visited while traveling in town for a museum conference and were delighted to see a great mix of contemporary, modern, and Renaissance works installed in the museum's galleries. Of particular mention was the small but beautiful Lipchitz sculpture display, the famously stolen and recovered "Woman-Ochre" by de Kooning, a luminous, cool colored Mark Rothko, a neat exhibition of Surrealist works, a fabulous Robert Colescott, and an excellent community based show highlighting queer artists. We only had about two hours to visit and wished we had three or four! Not a large museum, but full of excellent work for art lovers to discover. Definitely worth a stop when visiting the city!

Had a wonderful visit and tour with Lexie. She was knowledgeable and excited about art. Delightful!

It's a little pricier than CCP (which is free), but UAMA offers high quality exhibitions of the permanent collections and visiting work. The exhibitions are well curated. Typically, if only part of the exhibition spaces are open, they will cut off a little from the entrance, fee, too. There is a lovely courtyard in front of the museum, and plenty of outdoor pieces to enjoy for free.

My family and I love art! We have the annual membership to this museum. The University of Arizona Art Museum is amazing and has a variety of different type of art in display. It is Two stories and has beautiful and historical art too! Some are hundreds of years old. There's some war like art, Jesus art, High School and just abstract and much more! If you're in Tucson, make the trip! If you appreciate art, you will not be disappointed. 😊

This is a small but interesting museum that is hard to find but well worth the search. Parking on the street is not easy but the parking garage is close by to the entire arts center. The temporary exhibit is of paintings from a chapel and is worth the visit. There is a small exhibit of modern art and some staff and student art.

I went with my boyfriend on a weekend we had free. This was an amazing time and absolutely worth the admission price of 8 bucks. We spent two hours staring at everything. The Highschool art exhibit they had up, was pretty impressive. Those kids are so imaginitive!

I just spent the day here and...wow. There is so much to see that I will absolutely need to go back. I spent my time going through the Kress collection, but there were several other galleries that I made a dash through at the end of my time that looked equally amazing. The collections cover a lot of ground, so there's something here that should interest just about anyone. The staff was amazingly friendly and helpful. They clearly love being around the art and sharing what they know! I spent a little over six hours on site and they gave me lots of space to explore on my own but were available when I had questions. They even provided me with a little stool so I could sit in front of a piece of artwork if there wasn't a seat nearby. Certainly take some time to view the greatest hits they have, like "The Countess von Schonfeld with Her Daughter", the Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo, and the "Portrait of the Marchesa Cunegonda Misciatelli." Each of these was worth making the trip all on its own, but there are so many cool other items. I really enjoyed "The Madonna and Chile with Angels", the "Tabernacle with Scenes from the Life of Christ" (this one is a little small, so look specifically for it), and "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia." Plan to spend some time here looking over everything. Not only will I be recommending this museum to everyone I talk to, I'll be going back. I make a trip to Tucson every year and this is now on my list of annual pilgrimage destinations.

I spent an enjoyable couple hours taking in the excellent collection at the museum. Highlights for me were works by Georgia OKeefe, Jackson Pollock, Karel Appel, Lee Krasner, Horace Vernet, and the list goes on.