Last updated: 7/13/2011
820 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Free admission on Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Wednesday - Saturday
11 AM - 6 PM
Closed on Mondays and the following holidays: New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day
General: $8
Seniors (65 and over): $6
Non-Loyola students under 25 with ID: $2
Free with proper identification to Loyola University Chicago faculty and staff, Loyola students under 25, members of the clergy, current military dependents, and employees from other museums.
LUMA offers free admission to all active military and their families.
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Pamela Ambrose
phone: 312-915-7630
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Mary Arhondonis
phone: 312-915-7608
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Jonathan Canning
phone: 312-915-7606
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Ann Fruland
phone: 312-915-6719
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Guadalupe Herrera
phone: 312-915-7630
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Jessica Kleoppel
phone: 312-915-7603
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Ann Meehan
phone: 312-915-7604
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Lisa Stuchly
phone: 312-915-7608
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Molly Tarbell
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Noreen Jones
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Museum Shop: Unique objects, jewelry, religious articles from all faiths, textiles and books are carefully selected to reflect the Museum's mission, collection and exhibitions. Click on the categories online on our website to view items for sale.
Whether you’re looking for a daytime meeting location or hosting an elegant dinner party, LUMA has the perfect space for you.
The Museum interprets and displays the University’s medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque collection, known as the Martin D’Arcy Collection, other museum permanent collections, and rotating exhibitions.
The Loyola University Museum of Art is dedicated to exploring, promoting, and understanding art and artistic expression that illuminates the enduring spiritual questions of all cultures and societies. The Loyola University Museum of Art reflects the University’s Jesuit identity and is dedicated to helping people of all creeds to explore their faith and spiritual quest.
The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) was founded in 2005 on the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago. LUMA is located on the Magnificent Mile in Lewis Towers, a historic 1926 Gothic Revival building. The museum, with 25,000 square feet contains eight main exhibition galleries, the William G. and Marilyn M. Simpson Lecture Hall, the Solomon Cordwell Buenz Library of Sacred Art and Architecture, the Museum Store, the Push Pin Gallery, and the Harlan J. Berk Ltd. Works on Paper Gallery. LUMA welcomes new members and volunteers at all levels of participation.
The D’Arcy is one of the finest collections of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art in the Midwest. It is particularly noted for its diverse holdings of three-dimensional objects that epitomize both the religious and secular aspects of European life. Devotional ivories, painted sculptures, and enameled liturgical objects feature among its medieval highlights; in covering the Renaissance, the D’Arcy is especially strong in objects commissioned to celebrate familial events such as marriage and childbirth. Among its Baroque pieces are Christ Among the Doctors by Matthias Stomer, a Dutch-born follower of Caravaggio, and intricate pieces of metalwork and woodwork, such as a collector’s chest by Wenzel Jamnitzer, the leading German goldsmith of this period, and The Flagellation by Alessandro Algardi.
In recognition of the Museum’s broad mission to explore and promote understanding of the enduring spiritual questions of all faiths and cultures as expressed through art, a new collection—the LUMA Collection—has been established. Gifts of 308 Vinca, Thessalonian, and Kiliya-type Neolithic idols, ranging in date from 6500 to 3500 BCE, and contemporary photographs, prints, and textiles demark the Collection’s parameters. The majority of its pieces reflect the Museum’s temporary exhibition history.
Since opening in 2005, LUMA has hosted ambitious educational programming designed to engage people from ages 5 to 100. We seek to provide memorable experiences that lead to discovery, awareness, and curiosity. We hope to encourage life-long learning and believe that through our programs, learning to see and seeing to learn will make for a fuller, richer life.
The Museum operates as part of the educational mission of the University and is a 501(c)3 cultural institution receiving public and private support and with an elected board of advisors.
Access: Students, Scholars, Members
Appointment required: Yes
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