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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine: March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025 Buy Tickets

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Michelangelo:
The Genesis of the Sistine

Now through June 1.

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Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
Monday, July 28, 2025
9:00 AM
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Teen Metal Casting Camp
Teen Metal Casting Camp
Monday, August 4, 2025
9:00 AM
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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025
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William & Mary Collects III

February 7, 2025 — June 8, 2025
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — August 18, 2025
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Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
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Collection Highlights

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

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Three men by a tree
BUYTEWECH, WILLIAM
Black chalk on blue paper
6 1/16 x 5 5/16 ins. (15.5 x 13.5 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Ocean Sunset
WAUGH, FREDERICK JUDD
Oil on board
Sight: 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 ins. (29.2 x 40.0 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
Winter Landscape
WEBER, MAX
1939
Oil on canvas
15 x 17 1/8 ins. (38.1 x 43.3 cm)
Bequest of Maynard J. Weber
Mao
RICHTER, GERHARD
1968
Color collotype on light-weight, ivory wove paper
33 1/8 x 23 1/2 ins. (84.2 x 59.7 cm)
Purchase, Acquired with funds from the Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Bequest
La deposizione del sepolcro (The Deposition in the tomb )
MANTEGNA, ANDREA
1470-80
Engraving with drypoint
12 7/8 x 18 1/8 ins. (32.8 x 46.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Komposition
LONAS, JOSEPH HENRY
1956 - 1957
Bronze
91 3/4 h. x 28 w. x 21 ins. d. (233.1 x 71.1 x 53.3 cm)
Gift of the artist and his wife
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
Leslie
CLOSE, CHUCK
1986
Color woodblock print on Echizen Kozo Nimai Suki paper
Sheet: 32 1/8 x 25 1/4 ins. (81.5 x 64.3 cm); Image: 24 3/4 x 21 1/2 ins. (62.9 x 54.5 cm); Framed: 47 3/8 x 33 1/8 ins. (105.2 x 84 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund

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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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