Allen Memorial Art Museum

Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is recognized today as one of the best college and university art museums in the United States. Numbering more than 15,000 works, the collection spans 6,000 years of human history, with works from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome; European and American paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts dating from the medieval period to the present; important holdings of Asian paintings, scrolls, sculptures, and decorative arts, including more than 2,000 very fine Japanese prints; notable African, Islamic, Native American, and Pre-Columbian works; a large collection of prints, drawings, and photographs; and the archives of the artist Eva Hesse. Free to all since it opened, the museum serves students and faculty through significant integration of the collection into the College curriculum and through many academic and public programs.