Brauer Museum of Art

The Brauer Museum is closed for the summer. We look forward to seeing you when we re-open for the fall semester!

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The Brauer Museum of Art is home to a nationally recognized collection of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century American art

First Things First

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Exhibitions and Series

Brauer Museum of Art

In Review

372

Works of Art Exhibited

Exhibitions & Installations

7,181

Museum Attendance

Center for the Arts

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Abstract silver metal sculptures displayed in a well-lit art museum at Valparaiso, featuring wooden floors and beige walls, reminiscent of the exhibits at the Brauer Museum of Art.

Colorful, surreal scene of diverse people and floating children in a vibrant, crowded indoor space with large windows.

Brauer Museum of Art

Mission & Collection

The Brauer Museum of Art also houses the largest known collection of works by Junius R. Sloan (1827-1900), a Hudson River School painter who lived and worked in the Midwest. Other points of focus within the collection include world religious art and Midwestern regional art.

Our Mission

The mission of the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University is to educate and inspire campus and community members with original works of American art and international religious art, and to bring distinction to Valparaiso University and Northwest Indiana through exhibitions of regional, national, and international importance.

Collection Goals

To collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and teach significant works of art.
To serve the general art education needs of all students, faculty, and staff, as well as the specific art education needs of those studying the arts and humanities.
To present the world of art as one that ranges from the artist to a certain locale or region to the nation and/or world.
To include expressions of religious, especially Christian, faith experiences.
To include an appropriate representation of all mainstream media (such as painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and decorative arts) to support the various media taught in the Valparaiso University art department.
To continue developing the Brauer’s two collections: 1) American art, the primary collection, and 2) international religious art, the secondary collection.
To make the Brauer’s American art collection as comprehensive as possible by including significant examples of all vital directions in American art and cultural history.
To increase the coherence of direction in the American art collection by 1) acquiring works that anchor that direction and are therefore always on display, and 2) acquiring supporting and perhaps amplifying works that, because of spatial and other considerations, may be rotated in and out of exhibition.