Portal:Arts

Welcome to the Arts Portal! It includes information about art, music, and literature that can be seen and heard in Omaha!

The Joslyn Art Museum has been the principal fine arts museum in the state of Nebraska since its opening in 1931. Located in Omaha, it is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection. Although it includes works from antiquity to the present day, its greatest strengths are in nineteenth and twentieth century American and European art. The Joslyn also has a very distinguished collection of art of the American West...(go to Joslyn Art Museum for more info!)

• The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art has over 100,000 square feet of exhibition space.

• The Durham Western Heritage Museum used to be an old Union Pacific train station.

• The Joslyn Art Museum has some of the most breath-taking glass art work in the Midwest.

• There is an opera company in Omaha, coincidentally called Opera Omaha.

• Every summer artists from around the country come to display their art at the Summer Arts Festival.

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Go to a play at the Orpheum Theater,

Experience a local production put on at the Omaha Community Playhouse,

See classical and modern art in at the Joslyn Art Museum,

Take the kids to the awesome Omaha Children’s Museum,

Find upcoming artists at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,

Discover the history of the Midwest at the General Crook House,

Listen to the smooth sounds of jazz at Jazz on the Green (summer activity),

Explore some of the greatest artifacts of Omaha's history at the Durham Museum,

Learn about the city's educational history at the Nebraska School for the Deaf Museum,

Soak up the atmosphere while seeing a play at the Rose Theater,

Experience contemporary and historic works at the El Museo Latino,

Or listen to the symphony or show at the world class Holland Performing Arts Center!