The Daura Museum is a teaching museum at the University of Lynchburg that transforms learning through engagement with art and culture.
The Daura Museum at the University of Lynchburg is committed to fostering a deeper understanding of visual arts across different cultures and time periods, highlighting its role in cultivating culturally aware global citizens.
The museum enhances the University’s academic mission across all disciplines by integrating innovative and compelling programs and exhibitions. These offerings encourage critical questioning, effective reasoning, clear communication, creative action, and ethical living.
Actively seeking collaborative opportunities both on and off campus, the museum centralizes its role in educational enhancement and audience development. It also positions itself as a transformative space for reflection, enjoyment, and dialogue, leveraging the power of art to influence and inspire.
The Daura Museum of Art is a teaching museum that enhances the University of Lynchburg’s academic mission, transforms learning through encounters with works of art, advances creative collaboration with all fields of study, and furthers the appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts and cultural heritage for all University of Lynchburg constituents.
The Daura Museum of Art enhances the academic mission of the University of Lynchburg by supporting teaching, learning, and research through its collections, exhibitions, and programs.
The Daura Museum of Art promotes inclusion by presenting diverse artistic voices, perspectives, and cultural experiences.
The Daura Museum of Art is committed to ensuring that diversity, equity, and inclusion are reflected in its exhibitions, collections, and educational programming.
The Daura Museum of Art serves as a learning laboratory where innovation, interdisciplinary exploration, and creative engagement with art can take place.
Academic museums and galleries across the U.S. are dedicated to teaching our many audiences about global heritage — past and present, individual and collective — not only to enhance educational and enrichment opportunities in the communities we serve but also to foster mutual respect and understanding well beyond the borders of our localities. In furtherance of this commitment, we regularly welcome curators, faculty, students, and collectors from around the world who support our mission and share their creative practices and experiences with us.
Association of Academic Museums & Galleries, February 2017
The Daura Museum of Art is located in the Dillard Fine Arts Center.
Mondays – Fridays: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed Saturdays
Closed Sundays
University Holidays/Breaks
Closed
University of Lynchburg
Daura Museum of Art
1501 Lakeside Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24501
