Brauer Museum of Art
The Brauer Museum is open September 2–December 12, 2025 and closed on weekends, Fall Break, and Thanksgiving Break.
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Brauer Museum of Art
Mission & Collection
The Brauer Museum of Art also houses the largest known collection of works by Junius R. Sloan (1827-1900), a Hudson River School painter who lived and worked in the Midwest. Other points of focus within the collection include world religious art and Midwestern regional art.
- To collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and teach significant works of art.
- To serve the general art education needs of all students, faculty, and staff, as well as the specific art education needs of those studying the arts and humanities.
- To present the world of art as one that ranges from the artist to a certain locale or region to the nation and/or world.
- To include expressions of religious, especially Christian, faith experiences.
- To include an appropriate representation of all mainstream media (such as painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and decorative arts) to support the various media taught in the Valparaiso University art department.
- To continue developing the Brauer’s two collections: 1) American art, the primary collection, and 2) international religious art, the secondary collection.
- To make the Brauer’s American art collection as comprehensive as possible by including significant examples of all vital directions in American art and cultural history.
- To increase the coherence of direction in the American art collection by 1) acquiring works that anchor that direction and are therefore always on display, and 2) acquiring supporting and perhaps amplifying works that, because of spatial and other considerations, may be rotated in and out of exhibition.
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Museum Hours, Spring 2026
Open for semester: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Weekly hours
- Monday: 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Thursday: 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Friday: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Closed weekends
Closes for semester: Friday, May 8, 2026
Also closed:
Spring Break: March 8 – 20, 2026
Good Friday: April 3, 2026
Please note: Google does not always display the correct hours for the Museum; the best sources for the correct information are this guide, the website, and our social media posts (Facebook, Instagram).
Brauer Museum
of Art
Valparaiso University
Center for the Arts
1709 Chapel Drive
Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493