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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
Workshop
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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Cherub holding a rod
UNKNOWN
Black and white chalk on blue paper
10 3/5 x 13 3/4 ins. (26.5 x 35.0 cm)
Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman
Female Figures
CARREÑO, MARIO
1970
Black ink on buff-colored paper
Sheet: 16 ½ x 11 3/4 ins (42 x 30 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Pel & Ploma
BRASSESCO, TANIA ||NORBERTO, LAZLO PASSI
2010
Durst Lambda print on Kodak Endura E mat paper
Sheet: 27 ½ x 53 ins. (70.0 x 134.6 cm); Image: 26 x 51 3/8 ins. (66.0 x 130.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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
Gray Barns
SLOAN, JOHN
1917
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 20 ¼ x 24 ¼ ins. (51.2 x 61.3 cm)
Anonymous gift in memory of Garner Anthony '53
Portait of Alvin Langdon Coburn
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
1906
Photogravure printed on tissue
Image: 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 ins. (21.2 x 16.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Netsuke a rat
UNKNOWN
Ivory and red inlay
1 1/8 h. x 1 1/8 w. x 1 1/2 ins. d. (3.0 x 2.7 x 3.8 cm)
Gift of June and Joseph Hennage
Sacrifice of Manoah
GIORDANO, LUCA
c. 1632
Oil on canvas
72 3/4 x 52 ins. (184.8 x 132.0 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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