CARBONDALE - University Museum at Southern Illinois University Carbondale invites museum patrons to see the world through a different lens this summer. The Masters of Photography exhibit, featuring highlights from the museum's permanent collection, runs through May.

The Masters exhibit for this summer includes some true gems and rare pieces, such as a haunting photograph of silent film siren Gloria Swanson, an atypical Ansel Adams, imaginative landscapes by Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith and the social realism of Jacob Riis and Dorothea Lange.

Speaking of Adams, in January, a representative collection of his work comes to SIUC, one of the most prestigious ever to come to the museum. The exhibit, Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty, will run from Jan. 24 to March 21. The exhibit includes 25 of Adams' iconic black and white photographs. An Adams' photograph is part of a current exhibit at University Museum.

An exhibit comprised of student artwork from the University Museum's ARTiculation 2009 project is also on display at the Museum through July 24. ARTiculation students, from Elkville, Pinckneyville and Zeigler-Royalton high schools and from Anna Junior High School, used artwork from the Museum's collection as the inspiration for a series of their own artistic variations. Students used an online forum to discuss their own artwork and to comment on the work of others.

Summer hours for University Museum are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There is no admission fee, but donations are welcome. Visit www.museum.siu.edu for a complete summer exhibit schedule.

Other summer exhibits include:

Fossils: Life through Time in Southern Illinois, through Aug. 7.

Miniature Pioneer Dioramas of Southern Illinois Life, through Aug. 7.

A Warrior's Story: Oglala Sioux Buffalo Robe, through May.

Remembering Old Main through 2010.

- The Southern