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Abstract artworks by Ron Gorchov, Dan Christensen and Anish Kapoor hang in the Sheldon Museum of Art. They works are part of the new exhibition, "Point of Departure: Abstraction 1858-Present."

Sheldon opens fall with four new exhibitions

August 16, 2021

Archie, the woolly mammoth statue outside Morrill Hall, wears a red face covering on his trunk and mouth.

Morrill Hall open to the public on Labor Day

September 2, 2020

Rob Skolnick works to remove rock from around a lemur fossil in Morrill Hall's Visual Lab on the museum's fourth floor.

'Cherish Nebraska' lab unearths lemur fossil

June 3, 2019

The textile doll designs of Shelley Thornton will be featured this summer at Nebraska's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

Thornton's textile art dolls featured at Hillestad

May 28, 2019

Nebraska's iconic Archie the mammoth sculpture has been in place welcoming NU State Museum visitors for 20 years. Designed by Nebraska artist Fred Hoppe, the sculpture is based on the museum's record-setting fossil mount of a Columbian mammoth.

Archie strides into 20th year

October 24, 2018

Nebraska 360: Quilts of Ken Burns

July 3, 2018

Sheldon employees install "Room in New York" by Edward Hopper. The iconic artwork is featured in the museum's new exhibition, "Sheldon Treasures."

Sheldon reopens with updates, new exhibitions, extended hours

August 11, 2017

Rhino battle comes to life at Ashfall

June 20, 2017

Science & Technology

Luke Haynes, the artist behind "Log Cabins by Luke Haynes," which is now showing at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, will give a free lecture on March 3 at 5:30 p.m.

Lecture to highlight work of log cabin quiltmaker

March 2, 2017

Muchachos"Muchachos Await Counterattack by the National Guard, Matagalpa, 1978," a digital chromogenic color print by Susan Meiselas is included in Sheldon's "Conflict and Consequence" exhibition.

Lincoln PhotoFest includes campus galleries, student work

March 1, 2017

DiAnna Hemsath uses tweezers to open the drawer on one of the miniatures in the Kruger collection. This handcrafted piece includes wood inlay and custom cast bronze drawer pulls.

Kruger miniature collection open house is Oct. 24

October 17, 2016

DiAnna Hemsath, collections manager for UNL's Kruger collection, examines a miniature piece of furniture in her Architecture Hall office. Most of the 20,000 items in the collection are stored in Hemsath's office and are available for study.

Kruger Collection showcases four centuries of interior design

December 1, 2015