“After A Miracle: Coptic Ex Votos from the Birnbaum Collection,” features a selection of votive offerings from Egypt.
“Food is Work: Tools and Traditions” explores the tools and traditions used in the production of food. The exhibition is also sponsored by Themester 2014’s “Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science,” an initiative of the IU College of Arts and Sciences.
“Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-Votos From Italy” explores votive objects offered to a saint or divinity, in gratitude for a favor, blessing, or healing.
“Instruments of Culture” provides an overview of how musical instruments around the globe are classified and studied, and why.
“Still/Moving: Puppets and Indonesia” presents puppets, one of the oldest types of Indonesian performing arts which still persists today in many forms, as a way to better understand the dynamic peoples and places of Indonesia–focusing on Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese cultures.
“Thoughts, Things, and Theories…What Is Culture?” explores the nature of culture.
The Mathers Museum exhibition hall and Museum Store are open Tuesdays through Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Free visitor parking is available by the Indiana Avenue lobby entrance. Metered parking is available at the McCalla School parking lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue. The parking lot also has spaces designated for Indiana University C and E permits. During the weekends free parking is available on the surrounding streets.