Featured Exhibition

Outdoor Sculpture

Discover Sheldon’s collection—outside.

The museum is closed through August 17 for building upgrades. Instead, you can explore outdoor sculptures from Sheldon’s collection that are displayed year-round across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses. Use this map to create your own self-guided tour.
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Highlights

"Broken Pivot, Cherry County, Nebraska" by Andrew Moore

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez

August 18, 2023 through December 21, 2023

Reopening August 18 — This exhibition celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than ninety works donated by fifty American photographers to honor the writer Barry Lopez, best known for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1986.
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Closed through August 17 for building upgrades

Sheldon is closed through August 17 for building upgrades and the installation of new exhibitions. Check out the upcoming exhibitions here.
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A detail from "Wishing for the Farm" (1991) by Elizabeth Murray

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022