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Ackland Art Museum

Walk free galleries of Asian art, European old masters and North Carolina pottery at the University of North Carolina's art museum off Franklin Street.

101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 · Chapel Hill, NC

About Ackland Art Museum

The Ackland is the art museum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the edge of campus near Franklin Street. Its permanent collection holds about 21,000 works, with strong Asian art, prints, photographs and drawings, plus European pieces by artists such as Delacroix, Durer and Picasso and a set of North Carolina pottery. William Hayes Ackland, who funded it, is buried inside the building. Admission is always free, and metered parking and several decks sit within a short walk.

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