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Rubin Museum Of Art
Mission and Values:
The Rubin Museum of Art is a dynamic environment that stimulates learning, promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan Asia.
We Value…
Access - Visitors are at our core. We share with all communities our collection and broadly conceived exhibitions as a catalyst for dialogues about art and culture.
Engagement - We believe in taking an open and active approach to engaging learners at all levels and helping them to understand our world. We do this by encouraging deep connections and transformational experiences in a welcoming, enjoyable, and beautiful environment.
Creativity - We encourage creativity, innovation, and risk-taking, as well as excellence, transparency, and collegiality in all that we do.
Scholarship - As stewards of an increasingly significant collection of art from Himalayan Asia, we are dedicated to its preservation, display, and study and to advance this field of art and cultural understanding.
Recent News
Exhibition - Death Is Not the End at The Rubin Museum of Art
“A thought-provoking matchup of Buddhist and Christian treatments of death.” - The New York Times “...a remarkably expansive exhibition in which even the smallest moments reverberate with wit, gravity, and purpose.” - The…
Read More »Exhibition - Life After: The Bardo at The Rubin Museum of Art
Life After: The Bardo is an installation that invites visitors to lay down and listen to the excerpts from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, one of the most widely distributed forms of bardo-related ritual texts. Beliefs about death and the afterlife…
Read More »Exhibition - Shrine Room Projects: Rohini Devasher/Palden Weinreb at The Rubin Museum of Art
In dialogue with the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the center of the gallery, Shrine Room Projects is an exhibition series that features contemporary artists who reinterpret traditional and religious iconography. This juxtaposition provides…
Read More »Exhibition - Mandala Lab: Where Emotions Can Turn to Wisdom at The Rubin Museum of Art
An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings show up in your everyday life and imagine…
Read More »Exhibition - Masterworks; A Journey Through Himalayan Art at The Rubin Museum of Art
Masterworks: A Journey through Himalayan Art explores major strands in the development of art from the Himalayan region covering a period of more than one thousand years, with objects drawn primarily from the Rubin Museum’s collection.…
Read More »Exhibition - The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at The Rubin Museum of Art
Since it first opened, the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room has been one of the most popular installations at the Rubin Museum, providing an immersive experience inspired by a traditional shrine. Art and ritual objects are displayed as they would in…
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