About
The Bates College Museum of Art is a laboratory that provides an environment for broad audiences to explore and discover synergies created by the visual arts across the academic disciplines of a liberal arts education.
The Museum works collaboratively with artists, students, faculty, and fellow museums throughout the region to create educational programming and original exhibitions that offer innovative and diverse scholarly explorations that commit us to expanding the traditional study of the history and practice of art, while addressing local and global issues.
Academic museums have become a powerful force in American culture. Devoted, like their college and university affiliates, to the missions of education and scholarship, and to challenging explorations into visual culture and contemporary art through exhibitions and educational programs, the Museum represents a cultural space where diversity is championed and the local is as significant as the global.
The Bates College Museum of Art is a laboratory for the visual arts. Providing an environment for broad audiences to explore and discover synergies created by visual art across academic disciplines of a liberal arts education, we represent the new academic museum for the 21st century.