EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

Preston Jackson's "Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story" | Owens Gallery

The Center for American Decoys | Oberhelman Gallery

Golden Voice Studio Wall of Albums | Giant Screen Theater Gallery

Peoria Holocaust Memorial | Outdoor Campus, Washington & Liberty

Richard Pryor Photographs | Owens Gallery

Sculpture Garden | Outdoor Campus

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Solitude: The Necessity of Art | Opens November 1, 2024

The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited | September 28, 2024- January 5, 2024

Faces of a Nation: The American Political Textile Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman | September 28, 2024- January 5, 2024

Glenn Ligon: I Am Somebody | Opens September 4, 2024

DURYEA: America's First Car Company | Opens October 20, 2023

Life and Legacy of Annie Malone | Opened September 16, 2023

FOLK: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum | Opened July 27, 2023

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

BUILT: American Custom Car Culture | Opens February 2025

PAST EXHIBITIONS

FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art | November 2023 - September 2024

Sharks | May 25, 2024 - September 2, 2024

Good Trouble Quilts | Open July 12, 2024

THE FIRE OF GENIUS: Presidents and Patents | February 20, 2024 - July 15, 2024

HEART | Summer 2023 - Fall 2023 | Experience Gallery

INSECTS | January 27, 2024 - April 28, 2024 | Experience Gallery

CRITTERS: Art and Animal | January 27, 2024 - April 28, 2024 | Experience Gallery

Nicolas Africano: Themes and Variations | Opened September 14, 2023

BODY WORLDS RX  | Summer 2023 - Winter 2024 | Experience Gallery

"American Revolutionaries: Art & Disruption" | June 18, 2022 – Spring 2023 | Gallery 1

Archibald Motley's "Bronzeville at Night" March 3, 2022 – March 11, 2023 | Owens Gallery

"Design & Duplication: Treasures of the Peoria Riverfront Museum CollectionOctober 9, 2021 – Winter 2022 | Gallery 2

Community: African American Freedom, Perseverance & Leadership During Migration | Summer 2020 – Summer 2023 | Owens Gallery

Violins of Hope | August 4, 2023- August 31, 2023 

"Marks by Modern Masters: Selections from the Heintzman Collection" | January 7, 2023 - Summer 2023 | Owens Gallery

"Mars" | October 7, 2022 - Spring 2023 | Experience Gallery

" Nathan Gunn: The Art of Opera " | October 7, 2022 - April 17, 2023 | Oberhelman Gallery

"Andy Warhol: Endangered Species" | September 23 – December 11, 2022 | Owens Gallery

"Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence| May 28 – September 5, 2022 | Experience Gallery

"Modern Masters from the Heintzman Collection" | March 12 – September 11, 2022 | Owens Gallery

"Uncovered: The Ken Burns Collection"  | March 5 – June 5, 2022 | Gallery 1

"Cinderella, Snow White & Pinocchio | Classic Disney Art from the Collection of Steve Spain| February 19 – May 1, 2022 | Oberhelman Gallery

"OP ART | Illusions from the Permanent Collection| February 19 – May 1, 2022 | Experience Gallery

"MOON| February 19 – May 1, 2022 | Experience Galley

"American Verses: Terry Adkins, Mark Bradford & Kerry James Marshall| Summer 2020 - March 2022 | Owens Gallery

"Railroaders: Jack Delano's Homefront Photography" | October 9, 2021 – February 6, 2022 | Gallery 1

"T. rex: The Ultimate Predator| May 29, 2021 – January 16, 2022 | Experience Gallery

"Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked The World| September 26, 2020 – January 10, 2021 | International Feature Gallery

"Da Vinci - The Genius & Secrets of Mona Lisa| November 23, 2019 – March 22, 2020 | International Feature Gallery

"Leonardo da Vinci to Giambattista Nolli: The Orthographic City Plan 1500 – 1750| December 27, 2019 – June 2020 | Permanent Collection Gallery (The Street)

"Ken Hoffman: 50 Years in Peoria| Summer 2020 | International Feature Gallery

"The Sculpture of Ronald Bladen: ANGLE/EDGE/PLANE| Summer 2020 | International Feature Gallery

"Mangelsen: A Life in the Wild| Summer 2020  | Illinois River Gallery