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Museum Hours
Sunday 1 - 5PM
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Open until 9PM on the 2nd Friday of every month.
The Museum is closed July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Free admission.
Since 1958, the Ackland Art Museum has been one of North Carolina's most important artistic resources. Located on Columbia Street near the Franklin Street intersection in downtown Chapel Hill, the Ackland serves The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as broad local, state, and national constituencies. The Museum's collection consists of more than 15,000 works of art, featuring North Carolina's premier collections of Asian art and works of art on paper (drawings, prints, and photographs), plus significant collections of European masterworks, twentieth-century and contemporary art, African art, and North Carolina pottery. The Ackland organizes more than a dozen special exhibitions a year.
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