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America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation. and Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, August 28, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Volunteer Orientation Session
Volunteer Orientation Session
Saturday, August 29, 2026
11:00 AM
Information Session
Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 4, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
First Friday: Twilight Twirl
First Friday: Twilight Twirl
Friday, September 4, 2026
5:00 PM
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America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation.

June 19, 2026 — September 6, 2026
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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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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — Ongoing
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Collection Highlights

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


Lower East Side
FOX, JON GILBERT
1967
Silver gelatin print
Sheet: 8 1/16 x 10 ins. (20.5 x 25.4 cm); Image: 6 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins. (16.5 x 21.9 cm)
Gift of Jon Gilbert Fox (W&M '72) and Darrell Hotchkiss
Path to the Brafferton
ELLIOTT, ARCHIE
2016
Quahog and other shell with wool thread
Belt: 2 3/4 x 24 3/4 ins. (6.9 x 62.8 cm); Fringe (left and right): 5 ins. in length (12.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Master Ndebele Painter Esther Mahlangu, South Africa
BECKWITH, CAROL ||FISHER, ANGELA
1996
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 30 x 24 ins. (76.2 x 60.9 cm) Image: 28 x 21 3/8 ins. (71.1 x 54.4 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
The Steerage
STIEGLITZ, ALFRED
1907
Photogravure on tissue
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 ins. (28.2 x 20.3 cm); Image: 7 ¾ x 6 ¼ ins. (19.7 x 15.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
The East End
MYERS, JEROME
c. 1930
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 30 x 40 1/4 ins. (76.4 x 102 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Downes, Grandson of the Artist, courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Portrait of the three daughters of Robert Saunders Jr., Margaret, Mariana Barbara (c. 1830 – 1865), and Lelia Page (c. 1834 – unknown)
CRAWLEY, JOHN R. SR.
1838
Oil on canvas
53 x 40 ins. (134.6 x 101.6 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Page Wilmer Poindexter and Dr. Cary Breckinridge Wilmer
Saint Potentinus
UNKNOWN
c. 1500
Pen and brown ink
Sheet: 10 3/16 x 6 1/8 ins. (25.9 x 15.5 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Untitled polychrome pot, woodpecker motif
CLASHIN, DEBBIE
2017
Clay, pigment
6 1/4 h. x 13 1/8 d. x 43 circ. ins. (15.9 x 33.3 x 109.2 cm)
Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D.

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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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