Blanton Museum of Art

Blanton Museum of Art

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
Former name	University Art Museum; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
Established	1963 (1963)
Location	Austin, Texas
Type	Art museum
Accreditation	American Alliance of Museums
Collections	Old Master paintings, prints, drawings, Minimalism, Post-minimalism, Conceptual art, Latin American art, Western American Art, Antiquities
Collection size	21,000 objects
Visitors	200,000 (2019)
Director	Simone Wicha (from 2011)
Website	www.blantonmuseum.org

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of more than 21,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.