ACKLAND ART MUSEUM

CHAPEL HILL, NC

Magenta Peony closeup
Magenta Peony closeup Credit: jacksonlanier2

The Ackland Art Museum is a prominent museum located in the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is home to an extensive collection of over 19,000 works of art, ranging from classic to contemporary pieces. The museum was founded in 1958 and has since expanded its collection to include works from various cultures, including Asia, Africa, Europe, and America.

The museum's collection includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts, among others. It also features exhibitions and programs that aim to educate and engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds. The museum's permanent collection includes works by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Andy Warhol, as well as local and regional artists.

The Ackland Art Museum has a modern and spacious facility that includes galleries, classrooms, and a study center. It also has a gift shop that offers a variety of items inspired by the museum's collection. The museum is open to the public and offers free admission. It is a popular destination for visitors to Chapel Hill and the Triangle area, as well as for students and faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill.

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM is a Uncategorized or General Museum in CHAPEL HILL NC. US MID #8403700130

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

Magenta Peony closeup
Japanese Maple Tree
Leaf hider Putty Root - Aplectrum hyemale Foliage present mostly in winter and early spring, like the much more common Cranefly Orchid, Tipularia discolor. I cannot recall seeing so many Aplectrum in a clump like this previously.
Bee likes toothwort Bee on Cute-leaves Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata). Posted at: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203852156" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.inaturalist.org/observations/203852156</a> ID as Andrena sp.
Toothwort Cut-leaved Toothwort - Cardamine concatenata (Note correction to ID.) With a few Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum).
E. umb Dimpled Trout Lily - Erythronium umbilicatum Parks and Hardin
E. umb Dimpled Trout Lily - Erythronium umbilicatum Parks and Hardin This is the common lower Piedmont species. Erythronium americanum is also present at this site, but less common, and mostly(?) blooms later, I think. Extracting a bit of Weakley's key, the two can be differentiated: - Petals (inner tepals) lacking auricles at base; capsule and ovary distinctly indented (umbilicate) at apex-->E. umbilicatum - Petals (inner tepals) with auricles at base; capsule and ovary truncate, rounded, apiculate, or beaked at apex --> E. americanum References - Porcher and Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2001) p. 175 - Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (UNC Herbarium, 2020), pp. 220-221
Cherry Blossom trees
Small stag beetle Platycerus quercus - Oak Stag Beetle (male, 8 mm)
Small stag beetle Platycerus quercus - Oak Stag Beetle (male, 8 mm)
Small stag beetle Platycerus quercus - Oak Stag Beetle (female, 9 mm) I found a female and a male under the loose bark of a rotting log, likely an oak. They were quite near each other. Males, apparently, are sometimes found on spring flowers. The Dillons tell us "Mandibles of male as long as head and with about six teeth near apex, in female much smaller". It was nice to find a male and a female together for comparison. Also posted at (female): <a href="https://bugguide.net/node/view/2339429" rel="noreferrer nofollow">bugguide.net/node/view/2339429</a> References - BugGuide <a href="https://bugguide.net/node/view/17091" rel="noreferrer nofollow">bugguide.net/node/view/17091</a> - Dillon and Dillon, A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America (Row, Peterson, and Company, 1961), p. 569, plate 56(1)--P. virescens, a synonym for P. quercus - Evans, Beetles of Eastern North America (Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 144 - Ratcliffe and Paulsen, The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska (Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 2008), pp. 106-108, fig. 153
Small stag beetle Platycerus quercus - Oak Stag Beetle (female, 9 mm) Shows jaws of female--quite different than those of male.

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ACKLAND ART MUSEUM
FRANKLIN ST
CHAPEL HILL
NC
27514

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MID # 8403700130
Name ACKLAND ART MUSEUM
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Classification Uncategorized or General Museums, , Southeastern
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LAT/LONG 35.9245738, -79.038079
CODES FIPS State Code: 37
FIPS County Code: 135
US Census Tract: 011400
US Census Block: 1008