Ackland Art Museum

(919) 966-5736

Franklin St & S Columbia St
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 35.9132 -79.0558

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Wed-Sat 10am-5pm

Sun 1pm-5pm

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In Short – William Hayes Ackland was a Tennessee lawyer whose dream was to have "the people of his native South to know and love the fine arts." These very words appear on Ackland's tomb; however, Chapel Hill was not the site that he originally intended for the legacy of his art museum. Ackland had agreed to fund the construction of an art museum for Duke University, but amid odd circumstances following his death in 1840, the trustees at Duke refused the bequest and UNC found itself the beneficiary of Mr. Ackland's generosity.

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