![Past director and Jim Dine smile and lift a print off a printing press](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-museum/uploads/sites/3189/2023/03/Jim-Dine-and-Chris-Bruce--scaled.jpg)
Museum Collections
![A student stands in front of a storage rack storing framed artwork](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-museum/uploads/sites/3189/2023/03/DSC_1182-scaled.jpg)
Collection Study Center
Home of the Permanent Collection, the Collection Study Center features open collection storage paired with the Patricia W. and Samuel H. Smith Collection Classroom. Our expert staff provides faculty, students, and community members with opportunities to engage with unique objects of visual culture.
![Two people work on an orange cylinder](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-museum/uploads/sites/3189/2023/04/041723_Trimpin_006-scaled.jpg)
Collection Care
Curious about your privately-owned artwork? Please use these resources to better understand collection care.
Permanent Collection Searchable Database
The museum is responsible for a collection of over 4,000 priceless artworks housed in the Collection Study Center, unique within the WSU system. The CSC provides a portal for academic research and professional training through personalized access to the important works in WSU’s permanent collection. Your membership helps support scholarly research and an ever-expanding collection of art, visible here through our Permanent Collection Searchable Database.
Recent Acquisition Highlights
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![Sculpture of a horse made out of branches.](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/3189/2023/11/butterfield_Red-Forest_4-1.jpg@0.75x-1-792x566.jpg)
![Person in a hazmat suit in a mossy green forest.](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/3189/2023/11/Ichikawa_VITRIFIED_FilmStill_2018-1-1-792x566.jpg)
![Organic forms layered in brown hues on a cream page.](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/3189/2023/11/Sylvia-Wald_Dark-Wings-1-792x566.jpg)
![Rocks block a road with pyramids in the distance.](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/3189/2023/11/Richard.Misrach.Road_.Blockade.And_.Pyramids_clr_crrct-1-792x566.jpg)