Mills College Art Museum, University art museum in Oakland, United States.

Mills College Art Museum is a university art museum in Oakland, California, housed in a building designed by campus architect Walter Ratcliff, Jr. that combines Beaux-Arts and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. Its galleries hold 6,000 square feet of exhibition space, and the collection numbers over 8,000 objects, strongest in prints and drawings, photography, California paintings and textiles.

The museum's origins trace to the 1800s when Susan and Cyrus Mills began assembling a major art collection. The current building was completed in 1925 and has served as an important center for art ever since.

The museum carries the name of Susan Tolman Mills, whose 1912 bequest funded the building, and her husband Cyrus. Jane Tolman, Susan's sister and an art historian at the college, introduced an art history curriculum in 1875. The galleries show contemporary exhibitions by national and international artists alongside student thesis shows.

The museum occupies a single building on the Mills College campus, with the galleries reached through one entrance. The main hall, with its high ornate ceiling, was built to hold large gatherings, so the space is open and easy to cross on foot. Allow roughly one to two hours to see the galleries.

The building was designed to serve dual purposes as both an art gallery and a ballroom, a feature reflecting the original multifunctionality of the space. This duality mirrors the architectural vision of the campus designer of that era.