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Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, October 23, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Friday, October 23, 2026
2:00 PM
Tour
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Saturday, October 24, 2026
11:00 AM
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Ole Virginia Oyster Roast & Low Country Boil
Ole Virginia Oyster Roast & Low Country Boil
Sunday, October 25, 2026
3:00 PM
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Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal

June 26, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Photography From 1870 to Tomorrow: Pioneers and Innovators

June 2, 2026 — Ongoing
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Resilient Beauty: Selections from the Native American Art Collection

May 15, 2026 — Ongoing
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The Great American Birthday Quilt

June 10, 2026 — Ongoing
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18th-20th Century American Paintings

May 15, 2026 — Ongoing
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Where Late the Sweet Birds: Selected Works of Morgan Bulkeley, 1984-2025

August 27, 2025 — Ongoing
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Lewis Cohen: Forms of Inquiry

August 28, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — Ongoing
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Upcoming

Visions of the West

November 13, 2026 — February 21, 2027
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Collection Highlights

The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.


King William County, Virginia; Woman in White by an Abandoned House
WRIGHT, WILLIE ANNE BOSCHEN
1998
Gelatin silver pinhole photograph
13 x 17 ins. (33 x 43.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Alpine Lake
HERZOG, HERMAN
Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Sight: 8 1/4 x 11 3/8 ins. (20.5 x 28.9 cm); Framed: 17 3/4 x 20 7/8 ins. (45.1 x 53.1 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
Hamlet and Laertes Fighting in Ophelia’s Grave
DELACROIX, FERINAND-VICTOR-EUGÉNE
1843
Lithograph
Sheet: 19 1/4 x 13 13/16 ins. (48.9 x 35.1 cm); Image: 11 3/16 x 7 3/4 ins. (28.3 x 19.7 cm)
Gift of the Carnegie Collection
Abstraction
LAZZELL, BLANCHE
4/1929
Watercolor and pencil
Sheet: 9 x 5 7/8 ins. (22.8 x 15.9 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund and Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial Fund
Portrait of Arthur Clark Brown
CLARK, ELIOT CANDEE
c. 1897
Charcoal
Sight: 6 5/8 x 4 5/8 ins. (16.8 x 11.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Japanese Combs
MATHER, MARGRETHE
1930
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 ins. (19.2 x 24.4 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
The Flying Carpet, New Zealand
FABIAN, ERIKA
2010
Digital C-Print
Gift of the artist
Seated figure of a cleric having a vision
SALLAERT, ANTOINE
White gouache and dark brown wash on light brown, prepared paper
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 ins. (21.0 x 15.2 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation

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UTAGAWA TOKOKUNI, Untitled Kabuki scene, c. 1815, Woodblock print, Sheet: 15 3/8 x 31 ins. (39.0 x 78.7 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sullivan

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