No matter what your perspective, you can experience art from all angles at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. From world-renowned architect I.M. Pei's soaring triangular atrium, to galleries filled with extraordinary works of art from all corners of the globe, the Eskenazi Museum of Art will engage, stimulate, and satisfy your curiosity about the worlds of art. Since its establishment in 1941, the Eskenazi Museum of Art has grown from a small university teaching collection into one of the foremost university art museums in the country. Today, the Eskenazi Museum of Art's internationally acclaimed collections, ranging from ancient gold jewelry and African masks to paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, include over 45,000 objects representing nearly every art-producing culture throughout history. The Eskenazi Museum of Art’s mission is to preserve, exhibit, collect, research, publish, and interpret original works of art to advance the academic goals of Indiana University and to enrich the cultural lives and spiritual well-being of society.