Brauer Museum of Art

Brauer Museum of Art

The entrance to the Brauer Museum of Art within Valparaiso University’s Center for the Arts
Dissolved	2024
Location	Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
Type	Art museum
Key holdings	Largest collection of works by painter Junius R. Sloan
Collections	19th- and 20th-century American art, world religious art, and Midwestern regional art
Collection size	2700
Owner	Valparaiso University
Website	www.valpo.edu/artmuseum

The Brauer Museum of Art was an art museum at Valparaiso University, a private university in Valparaiso, Indiana. It was home to a collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art, world religious art, and Midwestern regional art. It was located in the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts (VUCA). Prior to the museum's opening, the university's collection was housed and displayed within several buildings across campus. It was named the Brauer Museum of Art in 1996 to honor the collection's long-time director and curator, Richard H. W. Brauer. The university began exploring selling parts of its art collection in 2023, to significant controversy and adverse legal action, and closed the museum in the summer of 2024.^[1]