MOA Behind-the-Scenes

We at the museum are excited to present the first look at the next exhibition: Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography. Members from the Registration, [...]

Painters often used their canvases or other materials multiple times in order to keep costs down or to outline an idea before fully committing to it. Minerva Teichert was no exception to this [...]

The newest exhibition at the MOA, To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion, is opening at the end of this month. This exhibition, which will be open for three years, focuses [...]

Guest post by Lynda Palma   As you know from visiting museums or reading “Meet the MOA” features on our blog, it requires a tremendous amount of work and many people from a [...]

Today we’re going to #TBT! We dug up some pictures of when the BYU Museum of Art was under construction in 1992 and put them side-by-side of photos of what those same spots look like today! [...]

In February 2016, our Registration Department was preparing the exhibition Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950. Allie Mielke, our Assistant Registrar, took us [...]

As a museum, when someone calls and says they have a Rembrandt painting that they want to donate, how do you respond? BYU Museum of Art Assistant Director Ed Lind, who answered such a phone call, [...]

As you wander into an art exhibit for the first, or second, or third time, do you ever wonder about all the steps it took to put an exhibition together? How does a curator decide which pieces to [...]

On Thursday, June 4, 2015, the BYU Museum of Art proudly presented for the first time the Museum of Art’s newest acquisition and addition to the permanent collection of the Museum, Carl [...]

We had a chat with the MOA’s Head of Fabrication, John Adams, to learn more about the process of building frames from scratch and a little bit about how and why the Museum first started [...]