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University Arts, Culture & Recreation

Serving Auburn and the surrounding communities since 2003, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is the only university art museum in the state of Alabama. The modern 40,000-square-foot building, constructed of Italian travertine, is an artwork in itself. JCSM is home to an impressive collection of art, featuring representative examples from the major 19th and 20th century movements, including American modernism. We invite you to wander through our spacious lobby, terrace, exhibition galleries, museum shop, café and auditorium. The museum is an elegant escape with its beautiful gardens, walking paths, benches, sculptures, fountains and lake. Enjoy a special visit that will change your outlook and inspire you at JCSM. The museum is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; and the Café Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free.

The Auburn University Department of Theatre presents about six productions per year in the Telfair Peet Theatre on campus.

The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, more popularly known as Pebble Hill, offers programming in Alabama schools, towns and communities that strengthens the bond between the academic community, the arts and the general public. The center’s home in Auburn is the historic 1847 Scott-Yarbrough House. A calendar of events can be found at media.cla.auburn.edu/ cah/index.htm.

The Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve, an outreach program of Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, is located at 2222 N. College Street (Highway 147), three miles north of campus. The preserve has more than five miles of hiking trails, a large amphitheater and pavilion, monthly programs and a nature playground. Its mission is to provide programs, experiences, nature trails and natural habitats for education, study and relaxation, while creating an atmosphere of discovery and stewardship toward our natural world. The Forest Ecology Preserve, which is open every day during daylight hours, is supported principally through memberships, private gifts and the efforts of many volunteers.

Located on the Auburn University campus, the Donald E. Davis Arboretum provides a peaceful natural setting to provide conservation, education and research on ecosystem preservation and diversity. The arboretum shows plants growing in the special habitats that exist in the state of Alabama, such as rocky hillsides, stream bottoms, pond edges, salt-spray-influenced sand dunes, pitcher plant bogs and the alkaline soil of the Black Belt Prairie.