Winter Updates: Holiday Closures, New Exhibitions, and Second Floor Renovations
By Bowdoin College Museum of Art
The Museum of Art will be closed from Monday, December 22 through Monday, January 12 in observance of the holidays and to help facilitate rotations and renovations. We look forward to welcoming visitors back to the Museum on Tuesday, January 13.
We encourage you to check our website before your visit for the most up-to-date information for our hours and what’s on view. In the meantime, here is a glimpse of what’s awaits you at the BCMA:
First Floor
The museum’s staff is already busy readying the first-floor galleries for two new exciting exhibitions:
Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free will open in the Osher and Halford Galleries on December 11, 2025, and be on view through May 31, 2026.
Hung Liu: Happy and Gay will be on view in the Center, Focus, and Media Galleries from January 22 through May 31, 2026.
Visions Unsettled: Stages of the Self in the Hispanic World, from the Spanish Empire to the Global Present will remain on view in the Becker Gallery through December 21, 2025. Early in the new year we look forward to sharing another great show in this space: From Guild to Genius: Inventing “The Artist” in Western Culture, which opens on January 22, 2026.
Second Floor
The second-floor galleries will be closed for a floor refinishing project beginning December 8 through late January. Galleries will reopen as exhibitions are reinstalled. We anticipate that Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection: Global Networks and Creative Connections; Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture; Front Lines: Women Etchers at the Fore, 1880 to Today, and the Assyrian reliefs will once again be available to view by early February. Exact dates will be shared on our website as the galleries involved come back online.
We are excited to share that the Bowdoin and Boyd Galleries, which are currently home to Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875 and Currents: Art Since 1875, will reopen in late February or early March with newly envisioned exhibitions.