Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising Plan Your Visit Threads of Our Community:
A History of the Avenir Museum

The Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising’s flagship location includes the Avenir Large Gallery, The Richard Blackwell Gallery, The Lucile E. Hawks Gallery, featuring exhibitions from our extensive collection of textile and historic costume artifacts. The Avenir Museum includes five galleries located in three campus buildings.

• Location: 216 E. Lake St., University Center for the Arts-East building – Campus Map
• Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (Closed until further notice, see statement above.)
• Admission: Free; self-guided
• Contact: (970) 491-1983
• Parking: There is no dedicated visitor parking for the Avenir Museum. On-street parking is located in the neighborhoods surrounding the University Center for the Arts and the Avenir Museum.
• Photography: Guests at the Avenir Museum may take photos without using the flash feature.

The Avenir Gallery in the UCA features exhibitions from the Avenir collections, current student creative design work, or loans from the larger community and textile practitioners.

THIS GALLERY IS UNDER RENOVATION. Check back for updates.

The Gustafson Gallery features regular exhibitions of creative student and faculty apparel design and merchandising scholarship

• Location: Room 318, Gifford Building (502 W. Lake St.), on the CSU campus – Campus Map
• Hours: Monday through Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m. ( Closed until further notice, see statement above)
• Admission: Free; self-guided
• Closed on national and university holidays
• Contact: (970) 491-1983
• Parking: For campus parking information for visitors, see Colorado State’s parking information website. The closest parking lot to visit this gallery is in the Lake Street Garage.