Cameron Art Museum — Attraction in Wilmington

This visit to the museum was extremely disappointing. The ticket prices were quite high, yet the quality of the exhibits didn’t even come close to justifying the cost. Most of the artwork felt unfinished and lacked any real artistic value, resembling incomplete sketches or something you’d expect from a high school art project graded a B. To make matters worse, some of the exhibits consisted of “lifestyle photography” that looked like images you’d find on a free stock photo website. It’s hard to understand why these were even included in a museum setting, as they added no artistic merit to the overall experience.

The museum layout was equally baffling. There were only two main exhibition halls. The first hall was divided into around ten smaller rooms, each of which was no larger than an average living room. The pieces displayed there were sparse and unimpressive, with little to capture your attention or encourage a closer look. The entire first hall could be walked through in minutes, and there was hardly anything worth stopping for. The second hall did show a slight improvement in quality, but it was still disappointingly small and lacked depth. The only highlights were a few works that explored the use of different materials to recreate the same image and some flag-inspired pieces that allowed for multiple interpretations. These were creative and interactive, offering a brief glimpse of artistic potential, but unfortunately, they were far too few to salvage the overall experience.

The final room featured a handful of architectural sketches and landscape drawings, which were by far the most interesting pieces in the entire museum. However, they were isolated moments of quality in an otherwise poorly curated collection. The exhibits felt like a random assortment of modern and abstract art pieces, many of which seemed hastily put together or entirely derivative, lacking any sense of originality or craftsmanship.

The only positive aspect of the visit was the friendly and helpful staff, but that doesn’t make up for the shortcomings of the exhibition itself. Overall, this was a very underwhelming and overpriced experience. It lacked any sense of cohesion, emotional impact, or artistic inspiration. For anyone who appreciates art, I can’t recommend this museum. Save your time and money for something that truly values its audience.

I won’t be sharing images of the entire exhibition because, for a museum that charges admission, it wouldn’t be fair to reveal everything. Instead, I’ll just share one or two pieces that I found...

This was the second time I visited this modern art museum; my DH's first. We were with friends and had brunch before checking out the various art work.

It's not a huge museum but there was plenty to see. I'm not into a lot of modern art, but there were some things I really liked.

I was most interested in Minnie Evan's work. I didn't know anything about her and read about her after I got home. She was born in Long Creek, NC and passed away in Wilmington. This, for me, makes seeing her work more special - a local artist! Her work is quite colorful but also quite strange and unique. Google her, as I'm sure you will find her history very interesting.

I saw paintings by Miro, Warhol, and Dali. There were other works on display, some that were weird. There's a dark room that had umbrellas that were attached to accordion type machines that opened and closed the umbrellas, along with really weird music.

In one room there were some beautiful Mardi Gras costumes. Also on display were duck decoys.

The one thing we didn't like about the place was the lack of information or story about the artists that were featured (such as Minnie Evans). Or did we miss seeing the information?

This is definitely a place I'll return to, as I want to learn more about different artists; and maybe I'll...

I have never faced racism before in the USA, atleast not so public ally before. I went to this museum with my fmaily and my friend who is visiting us from out of state. We r Indian and she is African American. As soon as we got our ticket a security officer kept following us as we walked through the gallery room. The security officer was Hispanic and clearly felt very uncomfortable and bad for treating us this way. He was being forced to follow us and was receiving instructions from his talky by a lady loudly telling him to follow us and make sure we don’t get close to the art. Everyone knows not to touch the art on a MUSEUM! They placed no barrier or instructions from how close you can stand to the art. We were taking pictures and a Caucasian lady run a to us to step away from the art loudly. She claims we bumped into one of the art so she had to run down in a rush and stop this massive catastrophe from happening. She was very aggressive and I felt very humiliated and embarrassed in front of everyone in the museum that day. Very disgusting treatment. I saw her again in the hallway and she did not apologize instead gave me a very bad stare. I will never visit this place again and will make sure my friends don’t either. Such a...