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Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
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Great Plains Art Museum

A university art museum in Lincoln focused on art of the Great Plains region.

1155 Q St. Hewit Place, Lincoln, NE 68588-0214 · Lincoln, NE

About Great Plains Art Museum

The museum sits on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and is run by the Center for Great Plains Studies. It opened in 1981 and was started with a donated collection of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photographs. Its galleries rotate exhibitions that explore regional landscape, ecology, Indigenous perspectives, and community memory, often with artists in residence.

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