August 26–December 14, 2025
South Bend, IN: Partnering with departments across the Notre Dame campus, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art’s Teaching Gallery opens its fall exhibition in collaboration with eight areas of study and numerous faculty. The Teaching Gallery is a unique space that provides greater access to objects for students working on research, presentations, and course engagement or other projects requiring the sustained study of objects; it also makes visible to all visitors the focused learning taking place at Notre Dame.
Although the Raclin Murphy considers all 23 permanent collection galleries in the Museum a welcoming forum for teaching and learning, the semester-long Teaching Gallery exhibition highlights the opportunities of an academic art museum. Faculty members from all disciplines are invited to use the gallery space and the Museum’s extensive collection as resources in their course design. This fall, the gallery will have works for close study for classes in history, classics, English, theology, biological sciences, and art history. In addition, the Institute for Latino Studies and the Moreau First-Year Seminar will be visiting the gallery for programs with their students. For these classes, the Museum and education department will collaborate with Professors Francisco Aragon, Christopher Baron, Emily Beck, John Deak, Brandon Menke, Stacey Noem, Elyse Speaks, and the Moreau First-Year Seminar faculty. Paintings, sculpture, photographs, and prints from the Classical Greek and Roman periods to the Post-Modern Era are featured.
Of special note, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art is welcoming the entire first year class into the Museum this semester through the Moreau First-Year Experience Seminar. The seminar invites all first-year students to address perennial questions about worth, purpose, and relationships with others, the world, and God. Animated by Notre Dame’s Catholic mission and a sacramental vision of God working through persons, these students join their peers in stepping back from the routines and tasks of life to consider life at Notre Dame as a whole and participate in the lifelong endeavor of living well.
Admission to the Museum is free for all guests. For more information on hours of operation, exhibits, and special events, visit raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.
About the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
With origins dating to 1875, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art (formerly Snite Museum of Art) is one of the oldest and most highly regarded university art museums in America. Founded on the principle that art is essential to understanding individual, shared and diverse human experiences and beliefs, the Museum encourages close looking and critical thinking. Experiences with significant, original works of art are intended to stimulate inquiry, dialogue and wonder for audiences across the academy, the community and around the world—all in support of the University of Notre Dame’s Catholic mission. The renowned permanent collection contains more than 31,000 works that represent many cultures and periods of world art history. For more information, visit raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.
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Gina Costa
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Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
574-631-4720
gcosta@nd.edu