The Hood Museum of Art Orozco Room is closed for renovations from June 18 through early September 2012. Please visit in the fall to see the new lighting of the mural cycle The Epic of American Civilization by José Clemente Orozco.
Jose Clemente Orozco, “Coming of Quetzalcoatl” (detail), panel 5 from The Epic of American Civilization, 1932–34, fresco, Orozco Room, Baker Library, Dartmouth College. © Trustees of Dartmouth College. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
For more information about the mural lighting project, please call the Hood Museum of Art at (603) 646-2808. For information about library reserve reading materials, please call the Baker-Berry Circulation Desk at (603) 646-2567.
The Hood Museum of Art is a museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. It houses both permanent collections and visiting exhibitions. The museum includes a store and is connected to a café. Beneath the museum is the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, which regularly has movie showings. It currently has over 65,000 objects in its possession, including a collection of Assyrian stone reliefs from Nimrud, Iraq.
Hood Museum of Art
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
603.646.2808
[email protected]
www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu