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The Manetti Shrem Museum will temporarily close to the public beginning March 16, 2020.

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Manetti Shrem Museum At Home

Sneak preview of renowned curator Lawrence Rinder’s essay about Stephen Kaltenbach’s Portrait of My Father.

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Current Exhibitions

Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End

January 26–May 10, 2020

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Current Exhibitions

NEW ERA, an installation by Doug Aitken

Through June 14, 2020

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Help Sustain the Legacy

Grounded in the legacy of UC Davis' world-renowned first generation art faculty, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is a hub of creative practice for today's thinkers, makers and innovators, now and for generations to come.