Rules for Museum Visitors

So that we may provide an ideal environment for preserving and viewing art,

Visitors may bring into the Museum:

Books
Pencils
Strollers for infants

Visitors may not bring into the Museum:

Back packs
Food or Drink
Briefcases and suitcases
Large packages
Umbrellas, camera tripods, or anything similar in size and shape
Flash cameras

A coat room is available to the left as you enter the Ackland; please store back packs, umbrellas, etc. in this room while you are visiting the Museum.

With special permission from the Museum's assistant director and/or the security officer at the information desk, visitors may bring into the Museum:

Cameras, still and video
Art supplies for copying works of art

To photograph or copy works of art that belong to the Ackland Art Museum, you must first request permission from the Security Officer at the Museum's Information Desk. Visitors may not photograph works that are on loan to the Museum, or works created after 1978, due to current artist copyright laws.

Visitors may not:

smoke, eat or drink in the galleries
touch works of art
lean on pedestals or display cases
leave notebooks or other objects on pedestals or display cases
point pencils at works of art
put hands or fingers very close to works of art