Collection Research

Only a small portion of the museum’s permanent collection is on view at any time, so a variety of tools are available to help you explore the works of art in the Nasher’s collection, whether currently on view or in storage.

View the online database of our collection.

Information about artworks in a range of media, styles, periods, and cultures can be found at our new website promoting visual literacy How Do You Look?

The Nasher Museum’s Study Storage offers faculty and students up-close experience with works of art not currently on view in the exhibition pavilions. Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts. Study Storage is a gift of Christine and Pierre Lamond and Alice Martin Whelihan.

A wide range of departments have visited Study Storage including

• Art, Art History and Visual Studies
• Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
• Classical Studies
• Cultural Anthropology
• Dance
• Duke Divinity School
• Engineering
• Environmental Sciences
• Foreign Languages
• History
• Kenan Institute for Ethics
• Philosophy
• Religion
• Thompson Writing Program
• Theater Studies
• Women’s Studies

To arrange a visit to Study Storage contact, email nasheracademics@duke.edu. Most visits to storage take place between 10 AM and 5 PM.

Please note that all visitors are requested to leave bags and backpacks in the lockers by the Lecture Hall when they arrive. Only pencils are allowed for use in the exhibition pavilions and Study Storage and no food or drinks are permitted in these areas.