Visitors in American Paintings Gallery

Featured Exhibitions

Every visit to the Nelson-Atkins offers new and exciting discoveries. Our featured exhibitions bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.

Our new exhibition space in the Bloch Building holds featured exhibitions. There will be an admission charge for select exhibitions.

Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative

May 3—July 20, 2008

Print Lovers at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving

May 3—July 20, 2008


Exhibitions

The following exhibitions are FREE.

Siah Armajani: Dialogue with Democracy

May 10—September 21, 2008

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea

April 14—October 18, 2008

In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame

March 8—June 15, 2008

Revealing, Reversible and Resplendent: 15th-17th-Century Italian and Spanish Textiles

February 19—August 17, 2008

Senses and Sensibilities

February 14, 2008—February 15, 2009

War and Suffering

November 17, 2007—May 17, 2008

Starr Miniature Collection: Military Portrait Miniatures

November 17, 2007—May 18, 2008

The Glory of the Law: Treasures of Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture

October 2, 2004—Ongoing

Tours