The Ackland Art Museum is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The museum is committed to educational programs that enhance learning by offering exhibitions and community events.
The museum holds about 17,000 works, with its most notable regional holdings in Asian art as well as works of art based on prints, photographs, and drawings.
The collection also includes European masterworks, twentieth-century and contemporary art, African art, and North Carolina pottery.
Artists in the Ackland Art Museum collection include Eugène Delacroix, Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Max Weber.
Heads of Sts Thomas and James the Greater by Leonardo da Vinci, second half of 15th century
Highlights of the Ackland Art Museum
- The Sword of Damocles by Richard Westall, 1812
- Canal and Boats with Distant View of Amsterdam by Rembrandt, 1640
- Cleopatra and the Peasant by Eugène Delacroix, 1838
- Woman and Haystacks, Brittany by Émile Bernard, c. 1886-1888
- Assumption of the Virgin by Guercino, 1655
- View of Ile de Cité Paris by Henri Rousseau, 1890
- Christ Blessing by Francesco Traini, 1335
Heads of Judas and Peter by Leonardo da Vinci, second half of 15th century
Ackland Art Museum
- Museum: Ackland Art Museum
- City: Chapel Hill
- State: North Carolina
- Country: United States
- Established: 1958
- Type: Art Museum, University Museum
- Location: 101 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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– Leonardo da Vinci
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Photo Credit: Richard Westall / Public domain; Leonardo da Vinci / Public domain
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