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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


Youth Camp: 3D Art Adventures
Youth Camp: 3D Art Adventures
Monday, July 6, 2026
9:00 AM
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Storybook Hour: Pre-K
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Friday, July 10, 2026
10:30 AM
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10:30 AM
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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.


The Fire Next Time: Blow Top Blues
SAAR, BETYE
1998
Color lithograph, hand-coloring, and collage, artist's proof 6
Sheet: 27 1/8 x 22 1/2 ins. (68.9 x 57.15 cm); Image: 27 1/8 x 22 1/2 ins. (68.9 x 57.15 cm)
Purchase, Thomas W. & Lolita Gayle Memorial Fund
The Flying Carpet, New Zealand
FABIAN, ERIKA
2010
Digital C-Print
Gift of the artist
The Family
OLUGEBEFOLA, ADEMOLA
1971
Color lithograph
27 1/4 x 20 1/4 ins. (69.2 x 50.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Royal Yachts taking the Prince and Princess of Orange to Holland following their Marriage
van de VELDE THE ELDER, WILLEM
1677
Graphite on paper
Framed: 22 1/8 x 38 1/4 ins. (56 x 97.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Water Memory
ROMERO, CARA
2015
Archival pigment print on Legacy Platine paper
55 x 55 ins. (139.7 x 139.7 cm); Framed: 56 3/8 x 56 1/4 ins. (143.1 x 142.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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
South German farm scene
DORNER, JOHANN JACOB THE ELDER
Pen and ink, and wash
Sight: 6 3/4 x 8 13/16 ins. (17.1 x 22.4 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Platter with head of a faun
PICASSO, PABLO
1948
Glazed earthenware and slip with yellow, green, blue, red and brown underglazes
1 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 ins. (4. 4 x 32.4 x 39.3 cm)
Gift of Rene A. Henry, W&M '54

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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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