Browse the Collection
Visitors can see and enjoy a collection that represents all major regions of the continent, including Northern, Eastern, Central, Southern and Western Africa.
American Painting and Sculpture to 1945
What’s American about American art? Visitors will find more than one answer to that question in the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Noyes Suite of American Art Galleries.
Most of the major ancient Mesoamerican cultures are represented in the Museum’s collections of Ancient Art of the Americas on the first floor of the Krannert Pavilion, including the Olmec and other civilizations of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, the Colima, and the Maya.
Ancient Art of the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean basin served as a stage for international trade and conquest, connecting the Near East to Europe and northern Africa. Borders in the region were in constant flux, retraced during the Greek and Persian wars.
Learn more about Miller House and Oldfields - Lilly House and Gardens, two architectural sites from the museum's collection.
More than 400 works of art in the gallery provide a panorama of more than 4,000 years of Asian art from China, Japan, Korea, India, Tibet, and West and Southeast Asia.
Through exhibitions, special projects, programs, artist appearances and the IMA's growing contemporary collection, visitors discover new ideas and art experiences.
The IMA collection of European and American decorative arts spans centuries, from the Renaissance to the present. More than 200 works from the collection are displayed in the European and American galleries.
The new Design Arts Gallery is located in the Lori Efroymson Aguilera & Sergio Aguilera Gallery on the Museum's third gallery level, which is principally devoted to showing objects from the post-WWII era.
European Painting and Sculpture to 1945
The European galleries feature painting, sculpture, prints and decorative arts from the 12th through the early 20th centuries, including works by Old Masters and Impressionists as well as artists of the modern era.
Most of the major ancient Mesoamerican cultures are represented in the Museum’s collections of the Native art of the Americas, including the Olmec and other civilizations of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, the Colima and the Maya.
More than 100 examples of South Pacific Art—from Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Indonesia—are in the Museum's collection.
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
With more than 26,000 works on paper, from medieval manuscripts to contemporary photographs, IMA’s collection of prints, drawings and photographs is its largest permanent collection.
The first item accessioned in the Museum’s collection of textile and fashion arts was an Irish embroidery, purchased in 1888.