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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.


A Study of The Cenci
CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET
1870
Albumen print (adhered to a laid and chain paper support)
Image: 8 3/4 x 7 ins. (22.2 x 17.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Seed Time and Harvest
WOOD, GRANT
1937
Lithograph
Sheet: 9 9/16 x 14 5/16 ins. (24.3 x 36.4 cm); Image: 7 7/16 x 12 1/8 ins. (19.0 x 30.9 cm)
The Clare and Arthur W. Jones Collection; gift of Clare Jones
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
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant’Angelo (View of the Bridge and Castel Sant’ Angelo [the Mausoleum of Hadrian])
PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
1754
Etching, state III/III
Sheet: 26 1/8 x 21 ¼ ins.(66.3 x 54.0 cm); Image: 22 7/8 x 14 ¾ ins. (58.2 x 37.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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
Portrait of the Reverend James Blair (c. 1655 – 1743)
BRIDGES, CHARLES
c. 1735 - 1743
Oil on canvas
49 x 39 5/8 ins. (124.5 x 100.6 cm)
Portrait Study
WATSON-SCHÜTZE, EVA
1905
Photogravure printed on brown paper
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 ins. (29.8 x 20.7 cm); Image: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. (21.2 x 16.5 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Measuring Up — Self-Portrait
ABELES, SIGMUND
1976
Lithograph
22 1/2 x 18 1/4 ins. (57.2 x 46.3 cm)
Purchase, Muscarelle Museum of Art Associates

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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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