The Collection Galleries

The Collection Galleries feature rotating installations of the Nasher Museum’s extensive holdings of historical art. Eight galleries, as well as the entrance to Wilson Pavilion, are dedicated to the museum’s strengths, which represent a brief history of human creativity from different times and parts of the world. Just beyond the entrance, visitors will find the Incubator, a flexible space for rotating student- and faculty-curated exhibitions. Visitors are invited to return again and again to The Collection Galleries, where Nasher curators continue to refresh the galleries with gems from the collection. The museum’s contemporary collection is showcased through rotating exhibitions within a separate pavilion. The exhibition People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection fills one gallery pavilion and also extends into Wilson Pavilion, creating new conversations and connections among historical works in The Collection Galleries. A breakthrough work by New York artist Fred Wilson from 1990, Colonial Collection, anchors the Arts of Africa Gallery. A painting by Kehinde Wiley is on view in the European Art Gallery; a work by Pedro Lasch reflects upon the Art of the Americas Gallery; and a photograph by Eve Sussman brings a new dimension to the Medieval European Gallery.