Yale University Art Gallery

The museums at Yale University in New Haven include North America’s oldest university art museum. The Yale University Art Gallery was founded in 1832 and has more than 100,000 objects in its collection, from Egyptian antiquities, African art, American paintings and sculpture and American decorative arts, early European art, to modern works including paintings by Van Gogh, Manet, Monet and Picasso. The main gallery was designed in 1953 by American architect Louis Kahn.

Opening July 29, 2011 will be Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery. This traveling exhibition, featuring more than 200 works that include treasures like John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence and Winslow Homer's Morning Bell, returns to New Haven as part of a three-part presentation; other openings are in 2012. The Yale Art Gallery is open to the public on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 to 5 and Sundays from 1 to 6. Admission is free. Entry is on Chapel Street at High Street; handicapped entry is at 1111 Chapel Street.

Details

Take I-95 Exit 47, stay on connector to third and final exit; go right on York Street at first intersection. The gallery is on the right after the third light. There’s street parking or a parking garage at 150 York. For more information, 203-432-0600 or artgallery.yale.edu.