FLATEN ART MUSEUM

"The purpose of an art museum is to teach, delight, and inspire."
Dan Schneider '69

Flaten Art Museum, located in Dittmann Center at St. Olaf College, exhibits shows of regional, national, and international significance. The extensive permanent collection includes traditional and contemporary textiles, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and works on paper from around the world. We invite you to explore our visual libraries of ideas that provide perspective on human experience through research and discussion, reflection and enlightenment. Jill Ewald serves as Director of Flaten Art Museum.

 

Mission Statement

It is the mission of Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College to foster an understanding of the place of the visual arts in a liberal education. Flaten Art Museum is integral to the inter-disciplinary educational program of the whole college by presenting exhibitions and programs relevant to the whole curriculum and by providing study and researchJohn Cunningham opportunities for faculty, students, and the wider community of scholars. To these ends, Flaten Art Museum is a good steward of the objects in the collection. The Museum maintains the necessary environment for the preservation, exhibition, expansion, and study, of the St. Olaf Art Collection and borrows and exhibits materials from other sources for a broader visual experience. Flaten Art Museum contributes to the general cultural life of the college and of the regional community of which it is a part. Flaten Art Museum follows accepted professional standards of museum practice.