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TEMPORARILY CLOSED: The Bates College Museum of Art will be closed from Tuesday, September 22nd until Wednesday, September 30th while we install our new exhibitions. We look forward to welcoming you to the new exhibitions on Thursday, October 1st!

NEW HOURS STARTING SEPTEMBER 1, 2026:
The Bates College Museum of Art will now be closed on both Sundays and Mondays. Additionally, we will continue to close at 5PM every day that we are open, unless otherwise posted for events.

Museum of Art Archives

July 9, 2018

10 reasons you need to travel the Maine Art Museum Trail

USA TODAY 10 BEST | With its breathtaking scenery, it’s no wonder generations of artists have been flocking to Maine…

September 17, 2026

Reentry Sisters join Bates courses

This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few courses across campus: previously incarcerated women joined first-year seminars through the Reentry Sisters Alumni Scholar Program.

September 17, 2026

Bates welcomes the last of this year’s new faculty

Bates welcomed 11 new tenured or tenure-track faculty for the 2026-2027 academic year, and Bates News is highlighting these faculty in three installments. Read about our new faculty here and here, and read below for the final group of new faculty this year.

September 17, 2026

Bates student honored as Newman Civic Fellow

Natalie Gersen ‘28 of Belmont, Mass., has been named a Newman Civic Fellow through Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education.