The University of Iowa's art museum reopened in 2022 in a striking new building by BNIM at the edge of the Pentacrest. Its collection runs to fifteen thousand works, with particular strength in 20th-century American painting — Jackson Pollock's Mural, a defining work of Abstract Expressionism painted for Peggy Guggenheim in 1943, lives here — and in African art, where the Stanley family's gift of more than five hundred pieces ranks the holding among the finest at any university museum.
Admission is free. Allow an hour for the highlights and longer if the temporary exhibition appeals.