The Nasher Museum of Art is Duke University's art museum, at 2001 Campus Drive on Central Campus in Durham, North Carolina. Rafael Viñoly designed the new building, which the article dates to 2005 and says cost $24 million. It calls the style modern. The article gives no materials or dimensions, and it does not date the opening precisely.
A gift from the alumnus Raymond Nasher led to the new building and the new name. The earlier Duke University Museum of Art opened in 1969 on East Campus with the Ernest Brummer medieval art collection. The collection now holds more than 13,000 works. About 3,300 pre-Columbian objects stand out, including Mayan ceramics and Peruvian textiles, and the museum emphasizes contemporary art.
The museum draws about 100,000 visitors a year. Trevor Schoonmaker has directed it since 2020. The article gives no hours or admission.
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