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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


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
Special Event
September 11 Open House
September 11 Open House
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 PM
Special Event

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.


Landscape with ruins
Attributed to BOTH, JAN
Pen and brown ink, and wash
Sight: 3 5/16 x 4 13/16 ins. (8.4 x 12.3 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Los Angeles, Pierre Koening, Case Study House #22
SHULMAN, JULIUS
1960 (printed 1990s)
Chromogenic print
Sheet: 20 x 16 ins (40.6 x 50.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Winter Snow, Blue Coal Calendar/Joy Winter Day
CLYMER, JOHN FORD
1942
Oil on canvas
Gift of Jane Spencer Smith (W&M '48) and Willard S. Smith (W&M '44), Alumni medallion recipients
Dune
WESTON, BRETT
1934
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 ins. (23.5 x 19 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Untitled (Illusionistic still life)
UNKNOWN
Pen, gray washes, and some color
Sight: 15 3/4 x 15 9/16 ins. (40.0 x 39.1 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
A group of children and a few men gaze from behind a barbed-wire fence that marks the boundary of the Moroka township in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET
1950
Ferrotyped silver print
10 3/8 x 13 1/2 ins. (26.3 x 34.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Standing Canoe
SINGLETARY, PRESTON
2023
Blown and sand-carved glass
23 1/2 x 12 x 7 ins.
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Conversation – Sky and Earth
SHEELER, CHARLES
c. 1940
Silver gelatin print
8 1/2 x 7 ins. (21.6 x 17.8 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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