Brauer Museum of Art

University art museum in Valparaiso, Indiana, known for American art and religious art.

1709 Chapel Drive, Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493 · Valparaiso, IN

About Brauer Museum of Art

The Brauer Museum of Art sits inside the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts on the university campus. Its holdings cover American art from the 19th through 21st centuries, world religious art, and Midwestern regional art. The museum keeps the largest known group of works by Hudson River School painter Junius R. Sloan. It was named in 1996 for Richard H. W. Brauer, the collection's longtime director and curator. The university closed the museum in summer 2024 amid controversy over possible sales of parts of the collection, and it reopened in November 2024.

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