[3] The AMAM is primarily a teaching museum and is aimed at the students, faculty and staff of Oberlin College, in addition to the surrounding community.

[1] In 1977, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown designed an addition that represents one of the earliest examples of postmodern architecture in the United States.

[citation needed] In 2011, the historic museum underwent a two-year retrofit, after which it was awarded with USGBC LEED Gold certification.

[5] In 2024, the museum restituted a watercolor by Egon Schiele entitled Schwarzes Mädchen to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, who was murdered in the Holocaust.

Prentiss Fund include a Henry Moore sculpture and other works: At the beginning of every semester, students camp out in front of the north gate of the museum to get first pick of original etchings, lithographs and paintings by artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso.