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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: Pre-K
Storybook Hour: Pre-K
Friday, July 17, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Storybook Hour: K-5th
Storybook Hour: K-5th
Friday, July 17, 2026
2:00 PM
Family
Counted Thread Bookmarks with Catherine Theron
Counted Thread Bookmarks with Catherine Theron
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
9:00 AM
Workshop
Storybook Hour: Pre-K
Storybook Hour: Pre-K
Friday, July 24, 2026
10:30 AM
Family

On View

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.


Raising the Red Lantern
LIU, HUNG
1992 - 1993
Oil on canvas and wood architectural fragment
90 x 60 1/8 ins. (230.8 x 154.2 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Acquisitions Fund
Untitled
GARCIA ROSSI, HORACIO
1991
Acrylic on canvas
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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
Yellow Magpie
BASKIN, LEONARD
1973
Lithograph printed in four colors on Velin d'Arches paper
Framed: 44 3/4 x 32 3/4 ins. (113.5 x 83.2 cm)
Gift of Barbara Waal
Children’s Choir Brooklyn
BUBLEY, ESTHER
1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 3/8 x 12 1/4 ins. (26.3 x 31.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Water jar
ZUNIE, CATALINA (LINA)
c. 1890
Polychrome earthenware
Gift of Burt Meyers in memory of his mother, Mrs. Sallie Key Meyers
Pieta
FREEDMAN, JILL
1978
Silver gelatin print
14 x 10 7/8 ins. (35.6 x 27.6 cm)
Gift of Jon Gilbert Fox and Darrell Hotchkiss
Miss Suzie Porter, Harlem
VAN DER ZEE, JAMES
1915, printed 1974
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 7/16 x 6 3/16 ins. (18.9 x 15.7 cm); Support: 15 x 12 1/2 ins. (38.1 x 31.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

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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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