William Benton Museum of Art

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+1 860-486-4520

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Sunday	1pm - 4:30pm
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 4:30pm
Thursday	10am - 4:30pm
Friday	10am - 4:30pm
Saturday	1pm - 4:30pm

The William Benton Museum of Art is a public fine arts museum located on the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, US. The Benton houses a permanent collection of over 6,500 artistic works and hosts special exhibitions, concerts, campus art walks, and other events. The museum is named in honor of the prominent U.S. senator and university trustee William Benton. The Benton has a cafe and a gift store. Admission to the museum is free for all.Constructed in 1920 and used for twenty years as University's main dining hall, the Benton opened officially as an art museum in 1967. The museum building is designed in the Collegiate Gothic style and is one of the core campus buildings in the University of Connecticut Historic District-Connecticut Agricultural School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The Benton's collection originated with former Connecticut Agricultural College president Charles Lewis Beach, who began the college's art collection, bequeathed his personal collection of American art to the college in 1933, and left a trust fund for the college to continue acquiring art. Developed over the ensuing decades, the museum's permanent collection includes works by Childe Hassam, Henry Ward Ranger, Emil Carlson, Charles Harold Davis, Ernest Lawson, Ellen Emmet Rand, Guy Wiggins, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton, Fairfield Porter, George Bellows, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt Peale, Georges Braque, Edward Burne-Jones, Reginald Marsh, Käthe-Kollwitz, Arthur Bowen Davies, Maurice Prendergast and Kiki Smith. The collection is strongest in modern and American art, but some works date to the Renaissance, and exhibits are highly diverse.
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Wake Up UConn: William Benton Museum of Art Feature

UCTV News morning program Wake Up UConn travel's to The William Benton Museum of Art on The Storrs Campus of The University of Connecticut to learn about the rich history of one of UConn's oldest buildings. Andrew Wine reporting for UCTV and Thomas Bruhn, Acting Curator and Director, is interviewed.

To see the full episode, visit uctv.uconn.edu

UConn State of the University 2012

UConn President Susan Herbst delivers her inaugural State of the University address where she speaks of her vision for the University of Connecticut: to continue Doing Hard Things Well within the UConn community and beyond. Her address focuses on student success, UConn's continued mission to lead in research initiatives, the importance of philantrophy, and her vision to further define UConn as a leading institution. To read President Herbst's entire address, visit:

WHUS Interview with UConn President Susan Herbst

The 15th President of the University of Connecticut Dr. Susan Herbst joined WHUS and UCTV for a live radio interview on July 7, 2011. This clip is only a segment of a much longer interview that will be found soon on uctv.uconn.edu

University of Connecticut | Wikipedia audio article

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00:03:02 1 History
00:05:28 2 Campuses
00:05:37 2.1 Storrs campus
00:06:02 2.1.1 Libraries
00:09:08 2.1.2 Campus
00:14:43 2.2 Avery Point campus
00:16:41 2.3 Stamford campus
00:19:30 2.4 Hartford campus
00:21:57 2.5 Waterbury campus
00:22:14 2.6 Torrington campus
00:22:32 2.7 Bioscience Connecticut
00:23:28 2.8 Jackson Laboratory
00:24:33 3 Academics
00:24:43 3.1 Undergraduate
00:25:49 3.1.1 Admissions
00:26:37 3.2 Graduate and postgraduate
00:29:21 3.3 Rankings and reputation
00:30:11 4 Student life
00:30:21 4.1 Campus safety
00:31:20 4.2 Student organizations
00:34:22 4.3 Symbols
00:36:08 4.4 Traditions
00:39:04 4.5 Greek life
00:39:34 5 Athletics
00:45:14 6 Alumni
00:45:23 7 See also

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The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land grant, National Sea Grant and National Space Grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881.
The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, Connecticut, approximately a half hour's drive from Hartford and 90 minutes from Boston. It is a flagship university that is ranked the best public national university in New England and is tied for 24th in top public schools and tied for 64th best national university in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report rankings. UConn has been ranked by Money Magazine and Princeton Review top 18th in value. The university is designated R-1: Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity with the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education classifying the student body as More Selective, its most selective admissions category. The university has been recognized as a Public Ivy, defined as a select group of publicly funded universities considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.UConn is one of the founding institutions of the Hartford, Connecticut/Springfield, Massachusetts regional economic and cultural partnership alliance known as New England's Knowledge Corridor. UConn was the second U.S. university invited into Universitas 21, an elite international network of 24 research-intensive universities, who work together to foster global citizenship. UConn is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the school became a land grant college. In 1939, the name was changed to the University of Connecticut. Over the next decade, social work, nursing and graduate programs were established, while the schools of law and pharmacy were also absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975.
Competing in the American Athletic Conference as the Huskies, UConn has been particularly successful in their men's and women's basketball programs. The Huskies have won 21 NCAA championships. The UConn Huskies are the most successful women's basketball program in the nation, having won a record 11 NCAA Division I National Championships (tied with the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team) and a women's record four in a row (2013–2016), plus over 40 conference regular season and tournament championships. UConn also owns the two longest winning streaks of any gender in college basketball history.