Reviews of William Benton Museum of Art (Museum)

joshua paolillo

The receptionist on Tuesdays and Thursdays after 1pm is amazing

James parsley

Really amazing art pieces and a very nice environment.

Nathaniel Austin Mathley

Fantastic gallery on a beautiful campus

Adam Wentworth

The cafe is great, best one on campus

Nathan Fiala

Nice sandwiches in the cafe and good coffee.

Ryan Snide

Beautiful architecture!

Saeed Valizadeh

Not the greatest musium but you can have a fun visit once in a while and enjoy the great coffee shop downstairs after your visit...

Bigfoot Is Right Outside

I have never actually been in the art section, just the coffee shop downstairs... But huzzah for art!

Ricardo Burga

Ok

Tymoteusz Siwy

Small museum but worth a stop.

Franny Lay

Don't waste your time

John Walenczyk

They have a huge collection of Ellen Emmet Rand portraits and it's free to view, you can't beat it. The kids that work here are awesome.

Chris Petersen

Great little local museum. Go for a walk around the Uconn campus, visit mirror lake, have an ice cream at the dairy bar, then stop in and visit the Benton. You won't regret it.

Joseph Williams

I nice diversion whole you are on campus. Worth seeing.

danielle vinci

Great museum!

Saidane Toumi

The museum was a special experience, if you love art, you'll love the william Benton!

A Schip

I had an extremely pleasant experience at the benton museum. Everyone was so nice in there and the store is beautiful! The only complaint I have was there was an extremely RUDE woman that worked there. She was AWFUL! she had really curly reddish blonde hair and was just so rude. I could not believe what was coming out of her mouth! if you go in there AVOID her. There is another woman with curly blonde/brown hair who was so sweet but if you see a blonde ginger woman stay clear of her! I would have given this museum five stars if it wasn't for her. As I said, the art and the store were beautiful and the student employees were fantastic especially when usually student employees are rude. I loved everything about it!

Jules N.

It's small, but free and always changing. The folks at the desk are very friendly and student staff are always helpful.

jim scudder

Nice gallery of oil paintings and sculptures.

Jorge Escalona

Not much to see in this place. More of a collection than a museum. Very disappointed.

A. B. M Hasan Talukder

Went there to visit the cafe inside.

John Bugden

Awesome little museum on the UConn campus.

David Fontenelle

Relaxing

Edmond Chibeau

Speak Up. Speak Out. Bread & Puppet Theatre Benton Museum CT May 28, 2015 to Oct.11 2015 reviewed by Edmond Chibeau Large Puppets, posters, and prints take up your personal space and crowd your intuition when you first walk into the show that opened tonight at the Benton. Executive director Nancy Stula has a reputation for bringing in smart shows and collaborating with smart people. She worked with John Bell, the creative and knowledgeable Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry to arrange a great “Bread & Puppet” exhibit at the museum on the UConn campus. Peter and Elka Schumann along with several Bread and Puppet regulars were present at the opening of the show at the Benton. Peter gave a moving talk. By that I mean he moved around the room while he was speaking. He walked with his fiddle and gave an impromptu free screech about each of the elements of the show. Many of the pieces recalled important moments of oppression and social insurrection. As well as Bread & Puppet stock characters such as the Washer Woman and her Consort, and the Garbage Man, the works remembered: Chico Mendez, a rubber tapper and union organizer, who was murdered in Brazil in 1988; Bishop Oscar Romero who was murdered in El Salvador in 1980; Attica Prison in 1971; MOVE, the Philadelphia based black liberation community founded by John Africa that was firebombed by the police in 1972. There was also a piece from perhaps the most beautiful and compelling work by the collective, FIRE, about the self-immolation of three Americans to protest the war in Vietnam. Buddhist monks in Vietnam had been setting themselves on fire as a form of protest and these three Quakers took up the cause. In the gallery next to the Bread & Puppet exhibit is a show of posters and other material recalling the Vietnam conflict. An art lover who had recently seen the premiere exhibit at the new Whitney Museum (designed by Renzo Piano) in the meat packing district of NY could not help but notice the difference between the “love-me-I’m-liberal” political pieces at the Whitney, and the ongoing commitment to engaging the military-industrial complex at its root, that has long been the project of the Bread & Circus Theatre.

nickk5559

Amazing gem of a museum