Faculty & University Students
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is an integral academic and cultural resource for the university community. Faculty and students are invited to use the museum’s collections, exhibitions, educational programs, and facilities to support teaching, research, and special events. Please be sure to contact museum staff as you plan the museum component of your course.
Visiting the Galleries on Your Own
Individuals and university classes may visit at any time during public museum hours for independent study, group assignments, or instructor-led classes. To facilitate your class visit, please submit this form.
If the timing of your class meeting requires that you visit during non-public hours, special arrangements can be made in advance. A museum staff person will escort you in the galleries. For off-hours visits, enter through the rear security entrance.
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While Visiting the Museum
Please remind your students of the following museum policies:
- Obtain a visitor's pin at the Admissions Desk and wear it visibly during the visit. Help us recycle by returning pins to the Admissions Desk after the visit.
- Deposit bags larger than 12"x12", coats, and umbrellas in the Coat Room lockers or behind the Admissions Desk. Lockers require a quarter deposit; your money will be returned when you collect your belongings.
- Food or drink is not allowed in the galleries.
- As a courtesy to other visitors, please turn off cell phones.
- Only pencils may be used in the galleries; clipboards are available at the Admissions Desk.
Still photography, taken without a flash, for private, noncommercial use is permitted unless an artwork is marked with a no photography symbol.
Examples of professors planning self-guided museum activities include “An Introduction to Japanese Culture” and “Psychology”.
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Arranging a Facilitated Visit with Museum Staff
Museum staff frequently collaborates with faculty to develop visits tailored to specific course interests or staff members may be invited to speak as guest lectures in university classrooms.
Examples include a dance improvisation class touring the museum with a museum educator and the course’s instructor, which uses the museum’s collection and architecture to inspire movement; and an Art Law seminar course meeting with the JSMA’s executive director to discuss legal issues related to museum acquisitions. Occasionally, a course will be designed to introduce students to museums such as Inside the Museum.
Contact staff early in your planning to propose a project and make arrangements.
Art Law, Dom Vetri:
Meeting with JSMA Executive Director Jill Hartz to discuss museum acquisitions by purchase, gift and bequest. The discussion will include issues related to assuring acquisition of good title and provenance concerns. Please read the following materials: Laws Relating to Museum Collections by M.C. Malaro in Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections (2d ed. 1998); Wills & Estates Checklist for Museum Staff – Administering Bequests by I.P.DeAngelis, ALI-ABA, 2004; Bequests:What Should a Museum Do To Protect Its Interest as a Beneficiary Under a Will by N.D. Ward, ALI-ABA, 1994.
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University Class Visits
Faculty may use the museum collection, including works not on view, to enhance student understanding of course topics. Typically, the class is a small group of students and their instructor who will be viewing a selection of artwork on public view, in the Gilkey Research Center, or in collections storage. Collections staff is present to facilitate the visit. Faculty interested in using the collections in this way are asked to:
Contact the registrar, Jean Nattinger,
jnatting@uoregon.edu, at the beginning of the term to arrange a visit.
- Meet with collections staff in advance to discuss interest in using the museum collection for class.
- Preview objects or work from a checklist provided by collections staff based on the discussion meeting.
- Give as much advance notice as possible as to the date and time of the visit.
- Provide a count of the people who will attend the class visit so that collections staff can arrange appropriate space.
- Provide a class roster to the JSMA staff contact person in advance of the visit to facilitate check-in.
- Instruct the class to enter through back door if the museum is closed. Otherwise the class can gather in lobby. Collections staff will meet the group in either location and take them to the designated room.
- Advise students check their backpacks, use only pencils to write notes, and observe the policy that only staff handles the art work.
- Please note: No food or drink is permitted in the Gilkey Research Center.
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Special Projects with Students
Occasionally, faculty members want their students to be involved in long-term or intensive research projects. This usually takes the form of research on a particular collections work or group of works. For example, a history class on food and culture in conjunction with an anthropology class on a related topic researches a number of objects from the collection to present to a faculty and donor group.
To facilitate this process, please:
- Contact the registrar, jnatting@uoregon.edu or (541) 346-0960, early in the term.
- Discuss with the Collections staff the project and its goals.
- Provide class syllabus and schedule.
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Individual Research
Faculty, researchers and students with research questions may see collection objects not on view. To facilitate this process, please:
- Contact the registrar or assistant registrar early in the term.
- Discuss with Collections staff which objects or files are required.
- Make an appointment to see a work or group of works.
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