Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum features a diverse selection of contemporary art

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is located in a stainless steel and brick building in Minneapolis. The museum offers an educational and friendly experience for visitors of the museum. The exhibits at the museum feature early 20th century works by American artists along with a diverse selection of contemporary art. The museum is also a teaching museum for the University of Minnesota and the community.

Tours are available for visitors of the museum, free public tours are available on Saturday and Sunday at 1.00pm with visitors to meet at the Information Desk. Group visits that have been scheduled are able to participate in either a guided or self guided tour. Tours run for approximately one hour and are able to be tailored for the specific needs of the group.

Tours include; Introduction to the Weisman Art Museum - this tour is suggested for first time visitors to gain an overview of the museum and view selections from the permanent collection. Architecture of the Weisman Art Museum focuses on the distinctive building and learns about the design process of architect Frank Gehry. Critical Response, which views works of art that are complex visual object with multiple interpretations and special requests for guided tours that have been arranged in advance.

Visitors are able to enhance their visit to the museum with audio tracks with commentary and interpretation of the exhibits at the museum on a free iPod.

Permanent exhibits at the museum include American Modernism from the late 19th and early 20th centuries allowed artist to bare their soles and forge a new and different visual vocabulary. There are around 2,000 ceramic objects on exhibit at the museum from a range of eras, locations, cultures and styles. Members Pottery is art from ancient Native American people and is part of the cultural history of the American Southwest. This art includes black on white bowls, which they drew the world on as the conceived the world, along with drawings of them hunting, dancing and swimming along with animals, mythical creatures and abstract of mountain, clouds and plants. There are many exhibits of Korean Furniture at the museum such as the 200 Choson dynasty, 80 Silla dynasty and around 150 folk paintings and wooden bowls and utensils.

The museum store has a range of handcrafted gifts, jewelry, household objects, toys, books, shirts and educational products that are all related to the programs at the museum. Members of the museum will receive a 10% discount on merchandise and receive invitations to annual shopping events.

The museum has an art rental program, which allows University students, employees of the university and the departments the opportunity to display pieces from the museum in their home or offices. There are over 300 frames artworks that are ready to hang. This program began in 1934 at Northrop Auditorium's Little Gallery, which allowed students the chance to rent print reproductions for 25 cents for their dorms.

Frederick R. Weismann Museum has been a teaching museum since its beginning in 1934, education remains central to the mission of the museum to make art accessible not only physically but also intellectually and emotionally to the public and University students.